Disciplines to which the analytical programme relates: epidemiology, public health,

Basic content:

- General information on community health promotion.

- Elementary descriptive, analytical epidemiology.

- Epidemiological studies.

Form of assessment: exam, written (classical) and oral

Specific objectives:

- assimilation of the necessary knowledge in the preventive attitude;

- assimilation of the necessary knowledge of basic epidemiology;

- acquiring skills in calculating frequencies and rates;

- acquiring knowledge and skills in conducting epidemiological studies;

- learning the necessary concepts for performing and applying screening tests.

LECTURES - 15 hours

1. Introduction to Community Medicine.

a. The notion of health - individual health and community health. Determinants of health. Concept of Community Medicine and Community Health. Successes and failures of public health - 1 hour

b. Community health methods in health promotion, maintenance and restoration - 1 hour

2. Primary Health Care: definition, history, content, management - 2 hours

3. Epidemiology: History. Definition of epidemiology as a science and practice. Areas of use of epidemiology. The epidemiological method. Epidemiological reasoning. Basics of practical epidemiology, relationship with other public health professions - 2 hours

4. Supervision. Epidemiological investigation. Epidemiological analysis. Epidemiological assessment. Use of epidemiological reasoning. Application of epidemiology in public health - 2 hours

5. Causality - 2 hours

6. Clinical epidemiology - 2 hours

7. Prophylaxis. Definition. Primary, primary, secondary and tertiary prophylaxis - 1 hour

8. Nosocomial infections (basic principles) - 1 hour

PRACTICAL WORKS - 15 hours

1. Descriptive epidemiology: definition of the notions of incidence, prevalence (of moment, of period), interrelation between them. Standardised mortality. Practical exercises - Framingham study - 2 hours

2. Epidemiological studies: types of studies, overview, advantages, disadvantages. Cohort and case-control studies. Concepts of relative risk, OR, attributable risk. Interventional epidemiological studies - 3 hours

3. Examples of epidemiological studies. Exercise: The Doll-Hill Study, Smoking and Lung Cancer - 2 hours

4. Screening in prophylaxis: types, criteria for setting up a screening programme, qualities of screening tests (sensitivity, specificity, predictive value). Practical exercise: introduction of screening test for HIV diagnosis - 2 hours

5. Mini-project - colorectal cancer and other exercises - 2 hours

6. Investigating an outbreak - management and exercises - 2 hours

7. Nosocomial infections - 2 hours