To develop knowledge, competence and practice about the epidemiological methods in order to plan the study design, to measure health determinants and events, to investigate the cause-effect relationships and to evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions, as well as to critically interpret, with an evidence-based approach, data from the scientific literature of biomedical interest and the translational aspects. Furthermore, the course aims to provide students with a solid scientific and practice knowledge of applied epidemiology, of the health promotion and of prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases at individual and collective levels.
Epidemiological Methodology
Public Health for the translation from basic science into prevention, promotion of health and policies. The sampling; To measure the events; To study the cause-effect relationships; Experimental epidemiology; The screening test; The investigation of an epidemic; Cluster of events; The questionnaires in epidemiology; Epidemiology of vaccination;
Hygiene
Epidemiology and prevention of respiratory tract infections; Epidemiology and prevention of parenteral or sexual-transmitted infections; Epidemiology and prevention of food- and waterborne diseases and zoonoses; Epidemiology and prevention of enteric infections; Epidemiology and prevention of emerging and vector-borne diseases; Epidemiology and prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases; Epidemiology and prevention of hospital acquired infections; Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases; Epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus and obesity; Epidemiology and prevention of cancer; Pre- and periconceptional epidemiology. Public Health Genomics.