Public Health Epidemiology

Course goals

ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PLACED ON THE WAITING LIST UNTIL TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE START OF THE COURSE

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Please be aware that you can only select a course option that shows the academic year and is offered Face-to-Face (F2F)

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS:
Please be aware that you can only select a course option that shows the academic year and is offered Face-to-Face (F2F)  or online (depending on your registration)

(FYI: the other options are options for Continuing Education (onderwijs voor professionals))


At the end of the course, the student is able to:

• describe the typical features of public health and public health epidemiology
• weigh and compare the effects of high risk versus population strategies for prevention
• reproduce at least 5 different measures of population health, their interpretation and use in public health policy or practice
• calculate life expectancy from life-table data and construct survival curves
• describe dilemma’s in the implementation of population measures for smoking reduction from the societal, economical and health perspective
• calculate the effect of exposure to risk factors on life expectancy and attributable fraction
• weigh and interpret contribution of risk factors to population health
• describe types of input required to model future trends in population health
• describe the main underlying factors causing of patterns in population health
• apply epidemiological methods to study ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in population health
• interpret results from multilevel analysis to disentangle effects of a shared environment (contextual effects) and individual risk factors on population health

Content

Contact details: Educational Office Epidemiology
E-mail: msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

Registration:
Face-to-Face: You can register for this course via Osiris Student. More information about the registration procedure can be found here on the Students' site. NOTE Students of the MSc Epidemiology (Post Graduate) that register in time (i.e. at least two weeks before the start of a course) will always be admitted to the course unless it is completely full. Other students will receive information about their application two weeks before the start of the course.
Online: Online courses are only available for Epidemiology Postgraduate students and can register via Osiris Student. More information about the registration procedure can be found here on the Students' site.

Course coordinator:
Prof. dr. O.H. (Oscar) Franco, UMC Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Course description:
Epidemiology is the basic science of public health. It is applied in describing and interpreting geographical and temporal patterns in population health, in identifying prevention strategies, and in estimating and evaluating the impact of risk factors and preventive measures on population health.

The course will consist of 5 consecutive days of lecture and in-class exercises, and an exam. 

Literature/study material used:
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Mandatory for students in own Master’s programme:
MIght be for a specialization programme of Epidemiology & Epidemiology Postgraduate
 
Optional for students in other GSLS Master’s programme:
Yes
 
Prerequisite knowledge:
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