Attendance

Natural history of diseases. Notion of health and disease. Evaluation of the effectiveness of diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity and predictive values. Levels of prevention. Main risk factors. Screening programs. Definition and objectives of epidemiology. Classification of epidemiological studies. Methods and tools of descriptive epidemiology. Disease frequency measures. Methods and tools of analytical epidemiology. The association measures. Bias in epidemiological studies. Elements of descriptive and inferential statistics. Experimental epidemiology. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: concepts.

Elements of basic mathematics; aspects of basic biology

Manzoli, Villari, Boccia. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità. Edi-Ermes, Milano, 2015. For electronic edition: http://www.ediermes.it/index.php/libri/1171-epidemiologia-e-management-in-sanita-edizione-digitale.html?keyword=epidemiologia+e+man Available material: Students will have the availability of the PDFs of lessons, exercises and additional reference material through e-learning platform of the course.

Mandatory. Lectures and training sessions

The final assessment of the Hygiene module will be based on the results of a written test consists of three exercises (10 points each) as those performed during training sessions.

Lectures and training sessions.