HYGIENE AND MEDICAL STATISTICS
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- MARIA ELENA FLACCO
- Credits
- 5
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
Training objectives
- The integrated course of Hygiene and Medical Statistics includes the modules of General and Applied Hygiene and Medical Statistics.
The teaching aims to:
- learn and apply epidemiological methodology in order to analyse, understand and evaluate health and care problems at both the individual and community level;
- deal with regulatory, organizational and managerial issues relating to the provision of health care in Italy;
- identify and analyze the factors that influence health and promote interventions to protect it.
- acquire the ability to interpret the main statistical methodologies of multivariate analysis, for the identification of risk/protection factors, taking into account the stratification techniques (for example by sex/gender) and standardization
- deepen the skills of critical reading of the results of scientific articles, the identification of the main biases, and the basic concept of multivariate analysis techniques.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
In terms of knowledge:
- distinguish the principles and issues related to disease prevention
- Interpret the results of the main multivariate, stratified and standardized statistical analyses.
In terms of skills:
- set up a basic intervention for the promotion and protection of health at the level of the individual and the community
- apply the techniques and the main limits of intermediate epidemiological methodologies and basic biostatistical methodologies.
- critically read the results of a scientific study of medium difficulty, and will be able to create a table of results according to international scientific standards.
- Set the basis for conducting a clinical study. Prerequisites
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Modulo: 010216/1 - STATISTICA MEDICA
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MEDICAL STATISTICS
Basic knowledge of mathematics and informatics.
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Modulo: 011229 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
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GENERAL HYGIENE
Knowledge supplied from the biological and medical disciplines forecasted in the preceding years of degree course Course programme
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Modulo: 010216/1 - STATISTICA MEDICA
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Bases of Epidemiology - Methods and aims
Characteristics of observational (ecological, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort) and experimental (randomised clinical trials) epidemiological studies
Concept of bias and confounding
Epidemiological measures: Absolute risk and relative risk - importance for clinical and public health decisions
Interpretation of some of the main statistical measures for the purposes of clinical and public health choices
The three steps of epidemiology
Statistical inference, confidence limits - in-depth analysis for clinical and public health choices
Significance: statistical versus clinical
Discovery of scientific evidence and importance of the epidemiological method for research and health organization
The tools of Evidence Based Medicine: reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, guidelines and diagnostic-therapeutic protocols
Concepts of Health Technology Assessment
The screenings
The interpretation of the results of a clinical study
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Modulo: 011229 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
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Basics of Applied Hygiene
Causes of disease and risk factors
Epidemiology and general prophylaxis of infectious diseases and of the main chronic-degenerative diseases
Health promotion and disease prevention
Prevention, systemic and individual strategies, lifestyles: importance and complexity
Active and passive prophylaxis, immunoprophylaxis, vaccines
Disinfection and sterilization
The health system: evolution of the health organization in Italy.
Healthcare corporatisation, and healthcare offer structures.
Healthcare management: definition and functions.
The structuring of hospital care: SDO and DRG system.
The case-mix classification systems, the healthcare funding system and the potential impact on the equity of care.
Evaluation systems of health services. Didactic methods
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Modulo: 010216/1 - STATISTICA MEDICA
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Lectures and Practice sessions
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Modulo: 011229 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
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Lectures and Practice sessions Learning assessment procedures
- The achievement of the learning outcomes will be verified by means of an oral exam relating to all the learning objectives as defined above.
EVALUATION CRITERIA: Level of knowledge of the topics covered by the course. Reference texts
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Modulo: 010216/1 - STATISTICA MEDICA
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Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità: Elementi di Metodologia. Edi-Ermes, 2015.
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice, Fourth Edition. Edited by Ichiro Kawachi et al.
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Modulo: 011229 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
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Pontello M, Auxilia F (a cura di): Igiene, Medicina Preventiva e salute globale. Piccin, 2022
Barbuti, Bellelli, Fara, Giammanco. Igiene, Monduzzi Editore, Bologna
Manzoli L, Villari P, Boccia A. Epidemiologia e Management in Sanità: Elementi di Metodologia.
