EPIDEMIOLOGY
cod. 03943

Academic year 2007/08
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Malattie infettive degli animali domestici (VET/05)
Field
Biologia veterinaria
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub:
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

Learning objectives

Become acquainted with the basic tools for conducting epidemiological analyses and acquire the capacity to process statistically significant data.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Epidemiology past and present; Definition of epidemiology: concepts and principles; Main measures of disease frequency: incidence, prevalence and other rates; Risk Assessment; Specificity, sensitivity, predictive value of a diagnostic test; Henle-Koch’s and Evans’ Postulates; Demonstration of causality; Transmission and maintenance of infection; Patterns of disease; Modelling; Sampling; Observational, experimental, prospective and retrospective studies; Control and eradication of disease; Epidemic curves; Risk assessment and risk management.

Full programme

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Bibliography

<p><br />
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Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica Signorelli C., Societa editrice universo <br />
Igiene e medicina preventiva Barbuti et al., Monduzzi Editore <br />
Epidemiology kept simple Gerstman B., Wiley-Liss </p>
<p>Epidemiologia e valutazione degli interventi sanitari. Francesco Attena. PICCIN <br />
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Teaching methods

The course consists of 17 hours of lectures combined with 7 hours of practical activities carried out at the Faculty’s computer science lab.

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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