Learning objectives
<br />The course intends to provide students with knowledge of basic tools for collecting and presenting useful data in the clinical and epidemiological field. In particular, the course intends to provided a "work tool" that will allow the student to analyse health phenomena and provide an epidemiological interpretation for the purposes of real primary disease prevention.<br />
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
<br />• Introduction to statistics (descriptive and inferential; population and statistical units; <br /> variables and scales of measurement) <br />• Corporate health files<br />• The phases of statistical analysis and frequencies <br />• Graphical representations<br />• Measures of position<br />• Measures of dispersion<br />• Outline of inferential statistics <br />• Sampling<br />• Introduction to epidemiology (descriptive and analytical; incidence and prevalence)<br />• Standardisation rates and methods<br />• Epidemiological measures of association<br />• Observational epidemiological studies<br />• Examples of epidemiological studies<br />• Experimental epidemiological studies
Full programme
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Bibliography
Statistica - autore S. Geller - Società editrice Masson<br />Statistica per le professioni sanitarie - autori J Fowler e Al. - Editrice EdiSES<br /> Elementi di metodologia epidemiologica - autore C. Signorelli - Società editrice Universo
Teaching methods
Teaching methods:<br />oral lectures with the aid of slides, and illustration of explanatory exercises; <br />Verification Methods:<br />oral test and with exercises according to the examination timetable. <br />Students' obligations: Attendance of at least three quarters of lecture hours.<br />
Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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