Epidemiology and Public Health

Métodos de ensino

The methodologies are aligned with the type of classes, promoting student participation, through a process of active and collaborative construction of their learning. Videos, documentaries and infographics will be integrated using debate forums through the Moodle® platform, concerning the health status of the Portuguese and European population.
These approaches will be complemented with group dynamics in the co-creation of materials focusing on the main changes in the health status of the person or community, through the mobilization of theoretically developed knowledge.
Assessment by attendance - 100%, 15% of which will be assessed by the delivery of the critical report to a pedagogical film viewed in the classroom (maximum 1 page - written in Tahoma font, size 12) developed by the students, to be submitted in the moodle.
The evaluation will make it possible to highlight the learning results according to the objectives set, and that the student receives feedback on their performance, associated with advice on their learning process.

Objetivos de Unidade Curricular

- Understand the objectives, methods and applications of epidemiology and public health in the health area.

- Recognize the importance of studying conditions or exposures to health conditions;

- Calculate relative risks, odds ratios, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and precision;

- Calculate frequency, association and impact measures;

- Recognize the importance of epidemiological studies in disease prevention;

- Recognize as phases of an epidemiological recognition protocol and an epidemiological study;

- Critically interpret results of epidemiological studies.

Estagios

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Programa

1 - Introduction to Epidemiology
Historical evolution and its concept. Purposes and objectives of Epidemiology. Validity and interest. Uses and practical applications of Epidemiology. Areas of epidemiology and methods in Epidemiology.
2 - Epidemiology and the Duality Health / disease
Natural history of disease / levels of prevention. Factors influencing health in man. Epidemiological structure. Classification of epidemiological characters.
Calculation of relative risks, odds ratios, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and precision. Calculation of frequency, association and impact measures.
Health indicators. Standardization.
3 - Epidemiological Resolution of Health Problems
Epidemiological methodology. Tracking. Epidemiological surveys. Epidemiological studies.
4 - Epidemiological intervention in health problems
Epidemiological surveillance. Health Professional action in an epidemiological perspective.
5- Public health

Métodos de Avaliação

Exam Evaluation

Theorical Exam: 100.0%

Continuous Evaluation

Frequency: 100.0%

Itens Bibliograficos

Docente responsável

Maria Manuela Henriques Pereira Ferreira