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MSTER INTERUNIVERSITARIO ENSALUD PBLICA

Gua docente de la asignatura:

Advanced Epidemiology

Departamento de Ciencias Experimentales y de la Salud

UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA - UNIVERSITAT AUTNOMA DEBARCELONA


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To be able to:

- study the frequency and distribution of diseases within human populations and

environments- determine if any factor is associated with the health effect

- compare groups of people who are alike except for the risk factor under evaluation

GENERAL

Instrumental skills: Basic understanding of the design of epidemiological studies. Basic understanding of the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological research in

public health. Ability to solve problems and compare and contrast epidemiological hypotheses.

Personal skills: Ability to work a team. Ability to collate results, write their description and interpretation and orally defend.

Communication skills. Methodological skills:

Promote the ability to design studies following straightforward procedures. Promote the ability to analyse data from the epidemiological perspective as well as

using statistical criteria. Encourage critical reading of epidemiological literature. Encourage self motivation in work.

SPECIFIC

Design of cross-sectional studies; assuring external validity. Design of longitudinal studies. Design of case-control studies; choosing the control

group. Ability to analyse case-control and longitudinal studies. Working in teams to solve practical exercises.

TEACHING AIMS

TEACHING SKILLS


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The work schedule is as follows:

Theory: 9 hours

Seminars: 13 hours

Tutorials with professor: 8.4 hours

Group work outside class: 9 hours

Individual work (exercises and readings): 9 hours

Individual study: 24 hours

Evaluation: 3.6 hours (exam)

Theory : explanation by the professor, with the use of examples, of theoretical concepts.

Seminars : The work is to be done both individually and in groups of students (number to be

fixed throughout the course).

Group work outside class : Completing exercises. Discussion among classmates in order to

answer the exercises is the basis for learning.

Readings : of theoretical material to be able to follow the classes and fulfil the exercises.

Continuous evaluation will be performed along the seminars, corrections and final exam.

What is to be evaluated?

The understanding of the problem, the application of adequate methods, the correct interpretation

of results, the writing up of the work and the level of communicative ability demonstrated therein.

Also the active participation in group work discussion and class. These are the items that will be

evaluated.

Each of the 6 seminars (individual exercises and discussions of papers by groups) will count 10%

of the total grade, with a total of 60%. The final exam will count 40%. However, it is necessary to

pass the exam (5 or above) in order to consider that 40% at the global evaluation.

EVALUATION

METHODOLOGY


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January

11/01/12 15:00 17:00 Introduction to the course. Seminar 1 Exercise Basic Epidemiology

17:30 19:30 T. Session 1: Cross-sectional studies

18/01/12 15:00 17:00 T. Session 2: Cohort studies

17:30 19:30 Seminar 2: Discussion of paper 2 on longitudinal studies

25/01/12 15:00 19:30 T. Session 3: and Seminar 3: Case-control studies

February

01/02/12 15:00 17:00 Seminar 4: Clinical trials

17:30 19:30 T. Session 4: Confounding: definition and control

08/02/12 15:00 17:00 T. Session 5: Evaluation of interaction17:30 19:30 Seminar 5: Exercises on confounding and interaction

15/02/12 15:00 17:00 Seminar 6: Measures to assess test results

(To be determined) Tutorial

CALENDAR


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Session and

Teacher Title Readings and Tasks

11/01/2012

(OG) Introduction to the course.

Seminar 1

(1h)

(OG)

Exercise on

basic

Epidemiology

Exercise on basic concepts on study design and measures

Do the exercise individually and hand in it at the end of the session.

(10% of the total grade)

T. Session 1

(2h)

(OG)

Cross-

sectional

studies

Reading ( previous to session ):

- Szklo & Nieto. Epidemiology: Beyond de Basics. Jones And

Bartlett Publishers, 2006. Chapter 1: Basic study designs in

analytical epidemiology

- Rothman KJ, Greenland S. Modern epidemiology. 2nd edition.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. Chapter 5: Types of

epidemiological studies.

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T.Session 2

(2h)

(OG)

Cohort studies


- Rothman and Greenland: Chapter 6, pages 79-92.

Other readings:

- Clayton D, Hills M. Statistical methods in epidemiology. Oxford:

Oxford Sciences Publications, 1993:227-233; 298-305

Seminar 2

(2h)

(OG)

Discussion of

paper on

longitudinal

studies

Paper for discussion:

- Doll R, Peto R. Mortality in relation to smoking: 40 years

observations on male British doctors. B Med J 1994; 308:901-11.

* Group work.

Time for conducting and handing in the exercise to bedetermined

SESSIONS PROGRAMME


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(10% of the total grade)

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T. Session 3

(1h)

(JB)

Case-control

studies


- Szklo & Nieto. Chapter 1: pages 28-51

- Rothman and Greenland: Chapter 7, pages 93-114.

Other readings:

- Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied logistic regression. New

York: John Wiley & sons, 1989; 1-36

- Slechelman JJ. Case-control studies. Design, conduct, analysis.

Oxford University Press 1982; 124-134; 227-280

Seminar 2

(3h)

(JB)

Discussion of

papers on

case-control

Papers for discussion:

- Bellido-Blasco JB, Celades-Porcar ME, Tirado-Balaguer MD, et

al. Estudio de la Diarrea Infecciosa en Castelln (EDICS):

incidencia poblacional del casos espordicos en 2004 y

comparacin con el ao 2000. Med Clin 2006;127:448-50.

- Bellido-Blasco JB, Gonzlez-Cano JM, Galiano-Arlandis JV, et

al. Grupo EDICS Factores de riesgo de los casos espordicos de

diarrea por Campylobacter, Salmonella y rotavirus en nios

preescolares An Pediatr 2007;66:367-74.

- Bellido-Blasco JB, Tirado-Balaguer MD, Gil-Fortuo M et al.

Brote de infeccin alimentaria por Salmonella serotipo Mbandaka.

Med Clin 2006;127:435-6

- Bellido-Blasco JB, et al. A case-case study: rotavirus

vaccination effectiveness in Castelln (Spain). Results using data

from a specific diarrhoea study and the regional vaccine registry.

28th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric

Infectious Diseases (ESPID) Nice, France, May 4-8, 2010 .

Group work.

Time for conducting and handing in the exercise to be


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- Rothman KJ. Epidemiology. An introduction. New York: Oxford University Press; 2002.

- Rothman KJ, Greenland S. Modern epidemiology. 2nd edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998- Szklo M, Nieto J. Epidemiology: Beyond de Basics. Jones And Bartlett Publishers, 2006.

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