Epidemiology |
Course Detailed Information: Course name: Epidemiology Course number: S042803 Course start time: Autumn Number of classes: 54 Teaching mode: Lecture Teacher in charge: Lina Wang Contact Number: 13776616627
Course Introduction: Epidemiology is the basic science of disease prevention and plays major roles in developing and evaluating public policy relating to health and to social and legal issues. Together with laboratory research, epidemiology is now used to identify environmental and genetic risk factors for disease and to shed light on the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of different diseases. This course is an introduction to epidemiology and to the epidemiologic approach to problems of public health and disease. It is to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the Epidemiological rationale and to use the study designs that built in epidemiological researches (experimental studies, case-control studies, cohort studies and screening study). The course will include hands-on experience in the evaluation of epidemiologic evidence, the analysis of epidemiologic data, and the discussion of strategies aimed to promote public health. Most lectures will be followed by a lab session. This is a 3 credits course. Assessment: Midterm Quiz (30%) + Presentation (30%) + Final Examination (40%)= 100%
Agenda details: Week Course Content 1 Introduction 2 The Dynamics of Disease Transmission 3 The Occurrence of Disease (I).Disease Surveillance and Measures of Morbidity 4 The Occurrence of Disease (I).Mortality and Other Measures of Disease Impact 5 Cohort Study 6 Case-control Study 7 Estimating risk: Is There an Association? 8 Comparing Cohort and Case-control studies 9 Midterm Quiz 10 The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis 11 Assessing Preventive and Therapeutic Measures: Randomized Trials 12 Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening Tests 13 From Association to Causation: Deriving Inferences from Epidemiology Studied 14 More on Causal Inferences: Bias, Confounding, and Interaction 15 Identifying the Roles of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Disease Causation 16 Applying Epidemiology to Evaluation and Policy 17 Presentation 18Final Examination
References: 1. Gordis L. Epidemiology.5th .Elsevier.2013. 2. Rothman, Kenneth J, Greenland Sander, Lash Timothy L. Modern Epidemiology.3rd. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2008. 3. Moyses Szklo, F. Javier Nieto. Epidemiology. Beyond the Basics.3rd. Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA, 2000 4. Harvey Checkoway, Neil Pearce, David Kriebel. Research Methods in Occupational Epidemiology, 2nd. Edition. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004.
Online learning material: http://www.epidemiolog.net/evolving/TableOfContents.htm |