Public Health, epidemiology and statistics
Objectives
The main learning objectives are:
- Accquire basics of Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Promotion and Administration of health.
- Identify and characterize important problems in public health in Portugal
- To recognize and prioritize the health needs of individuals, groups and communities.
- Understand the dynamics of the disease and its natural history, data sources and main types of epidemiological study and measurement of data.
- Set appropriate and relevant strategies that contribute to the control of major health problems.
- To promote the skills to use the Epidemiology of expertise in clinical reasoning, health problem solving and research.
- Each of four students group shall, on a proposed theme, write a Research Protocol, define a
population and its sample, build a questionnaire, will apply it to the defined population,
build a database, will address the results applying the appropriate statistics methodology
and present the results writing a scientific paper that will present orally.
§ Discipline of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics aims to give a vision of health in a population perspective, based on scientific evidence used by health professionals and institutions in order to provide answers to the concerns of society and its most vulnerable groups.
It is expected, as major educational purposes:
- Understand the health problems in a community perspective.
- Knowing the determinants that influence the health situation / disease, the needs of population health
and care.
- Learning methodologies to characterize the health and disease phenomena in population and its quantification.
- Study perspectives and intervention techniques in the community, in health promotion and prevention
of disease.
- Know the health system, the structure of the different services and the roles of Health professionals.
- Understanding human rights and the right to health, enshrined in the Constitution and in international treaties.
- To know the scientific methodology and its application in public health.
- Know how to communicate scientific research results in written and oral form.
General characterization
Code
11158
Credits
8
Responsible teacher
Prof. Doutor Luís Nunes
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Bibliography
Basic Bibliography
§ An Introduction to Medical Statistics, 3 ed Oxford University press, Blund M. 2000
§ http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/statistics-square-one#Anchor-11.1
- Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. Aschengrau A. e Seage III GR, 2008 Jones and Barthett Publishers
- Epidemiology Gordis L Barnes & Noble 2008
- Precaution Prevention and Public Health Ethics, J Med and Philosophy 2004 29 3, 313-332
- A Code of Ethics for Public Health Am J Public Health 92, 7, 1057-1059 July 2002
- Haupt A and Krane TT. Population handbook, 5th ed, 2004
- INE. Projecções da população residente 2012-2060
- hgp://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#CDSR
- WHO (2009). Milestones in Health Promotion: Statements from Global Conferences.
- Maxwell NI. Understanding Environmental Health. JB Learning. 2 nd Ed
- Saracci, R. Intoducing the history of epidemiology. Oxford University Press, 2001. 1-19.
- CDC. Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice. An Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics. 3.Ed
- Groves, RM et al. Survey Methodology. 2nd Ed 2009. Wiley
Teaching method
Teaching Methologies
§ Theoretical classes - in the first two weeks of the semester and one class per week during the semester- (integrate an exhibition component, and an interactive component)
§ Practical classes (part of a exhibition component and an interactive component, aimed at small groups)
§ Research work in the field - community
§ School computer room practices
Evaluation method
Evaluation:
a)
A - Work Research. Valued at 25% of the final grade, 5 out of 20.
Reviews partial Protocol, 1,5 pts., Oral Presentation, 1,5 pts., and Article , 2 pts.
B - Epid endorsement. mid-term; optional test, no knockout
C - Biostat. endorsement practice. Quote of the final grade will be 5 pts.
D - PH and Epidemiology test multiple choice questions and / or problem solving, 10 in 20;
2nd time, note improvements and special time - oral exam with all matters of PH, Epid and Biostat.
b) Criteria
§ Presence to practical classes, compulsory; record of attendance.
§ Written Submission and Oral article - a necessary condition to the frequency of discipline.
§ Eliminatory mark <50% in A and D; the student must be 5 or > pts, in A and D.
Erasmus students ; Students with special status and of 4th and 5th years and Students - Oral test
Subject matter
PUBLIC HEALTH (PH) - OVERVIEW AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES; HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL DETERMINANTS
multidisciplinary, cross-cutting and research; human rights, individual responsibility, citizenship, law and social justice
POPULATION AND HEALTH: DYNAMIC POPULATION AGING
DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL STUDIES, HEALTH SYSTEMS
INDICATORS OF HEALTH AND INTRODUCTION TO PH RESEARCH
ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
BIOSTATISTICS - Descriptive; Statistical Inference
PH ETHICS
MIGRATION AND HEALTH
DIABETES MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEM
HEALTH PROMOTION
COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH
MIGRATION AND HEALTH
EPIDEMICS; COMUNICABLE DISEASES
HEALTH AND WORK
Communicate (presentations and articles)
GENETIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH SYSTEMS
QUALITY AND HEALTH SYSTEMS
Health IN PORTUGAL
What is a research paper?
What is a research protocol
Bibliographic search
Questionnaires
Sampling
protocol
Health measurement
Analytical and experimental factors I and II
health promotion
Environment and health
Database construction for research work
Screenings, screening tests and diagnostics
Epidemics, communicable diseases
Epidemiological Surveillance
DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS
NATIONAL HEALTH AND PRIORITY PROGRAMS