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Epidemiology - CPHEP3
Title: Epidemiologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics 3FM CU (12-EPID)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2022
Semester: winter
Points: 7
E-Credits: 7
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:15/30, C [HS]
summer s.:0/30, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/cs/pracoviste/epidemiologie
Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Alexander Čelko, CSc.
Classification: Health Care > Basic Sciences
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.10.2008)
The subject is taught in bachelor?s study programme Specialisation in Health Care, subject Public Health in the 3rd year of study (combined study). ). Introductory to the subject epidemiology, terminology, , mode of transmission of the diseases, epidemiological studies, IT in epidemiology, principles of passive and active immunization.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.10.2008)

Goal of the subject is make students acquainted with professional terminology used in epidemiology, with epidemiological approach to assessment of health and disease, with basic characteristics of epidemiological studies, how to organize, conduct, evaluate and interpret epidemiological study. Content of the practical trainings in the summer semesteris special epidemiology ? occurrence (incidence, prevalence, mortality) and basic characteristics of communicable and non-communicable diseases (influenza, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis,etc), with epidemiology of cancers (trends of incidence and mortality of most frerquent cancers), immunizations programmes in CR and worldwide.

Goal of the practical trainings is to master the subject of investigation in epidemiology and epidemiological methods of work.

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (13.09.2017)

Zápočtové test zimní i letní semestr

 

Zimní semestr:

                              Epidemiologická metoda práce

                              Typy epidemiologických studií

                              Deskriptivní charakteristiky - osoba, místo, čas

                              Ukazatele nemocnosti a úmrtnosti

                               Proces šíření nákazy

                              Validita diagnostických testů

 

80% docházky na praktikách, zápočtový test  - 25 otázek multiple choice test - 18 správných odpovědí

Letní semestr:

                          Obecná a speciální epidemiologie

                        Základy pasivní a aktivní imunizace

                        Střevní bakteriální a virové nákazy

                        Respirační virové a bakteriální nákazy

                        Virové hepatitidy

                        HIV/AIDS

                        Nákazy s přírodní ohniskovostí

    

80% docházky na praktikách, zápočtový test  - 25 otázek multiple choice test - 18 správných odpovědí

Zkouška ústní (podmínkou úspěšnost v zápočtovém testu) - rozsah vědomostí viz výše

Literature -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (13.09.2017)

1. V. Janout: Epidemiologické studie, 1996, ISBN 80-7013-224-8

2. B. Ticháček: Základy epidemiologie, vyd. Galén 1997

3. Kolektiv: Manuál prevence v lékařské praxi ? souborné vydání, Univerzita Karlova /
Fortuna, 2004, 736 stran, ISBN 80-7168-942-4

4. Dana Göpfertová, Petr Pazdiora, Jana Dáňová: Epidemiologie (obecná a speciální
epidemiologie infekčních nemocí), Učební texty Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, Karolinum
2013, ISBN:978-80-246-2223-1

5. Jana Dáňová, Jitka Částková: Očkování v České republice, Nakladatelství Triton, 2008,
ISBN 978-80-7387-122-2

Teaching methods -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.10.2008)

Lectures, practical trainings - practical examples and model situations

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.10.2008)

For awarding the credit is inevitable at least 80% attendance at practical trainings and successful passing the test (25 questions of a multiple choice test ? 80% of correct answers)

After elapsing all the offered test dates at least 14 days interval is necessary for a new test date after consultation with the head teacher.

Missing practical training can be substitute only by consultation with appropriate teacher.

In summer semester after awarding the credit will follow an oral examination which can be taken 3 times in at least 14 days intervals.

Syllabus -
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (15.10.2008)

Syllabus

Winter Semester

Epidemiologic aspects of evaluation of health status

Methods of evaluation of health status, explanation of terminology used, basic characteristics of population studies, measures of disease frequency and association

Development and use of epidemiological methods

Terminology used in epidemiology, basic characteristics of epidemiological studies, examples of different types of studies, their planning, design, and conducting, evaluation of results

Descriptive epidemiology

Basic characteristics - person, place, time. Sources of data and its presentation.

Types of descriptive studies. Hypothesis formulation of causal association.

Analytical epidemiology

Definition, clarification of causal association between exposure and effect, hypothesis testing. Selection of study groups, statistical assessment. Prospective and retrospective case-control and cohort study, their advantages and disadvantages

Experimental epidemiology Definition, effect and importance of experimental studies. Their types, selection of subjects under investigation, types of blinding, randomization, design, conducting and final testing and evaluation. Ethical issues of experimental clinical studies.

The ways of interpretation and evaluation of studies

Issues in analysis and interpretation of studies, evaluation of the role of bias and counfounding, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals

Information systems of infectious diseases

Principles of passive and active immunization

Nosokomial diseases, Epidemilogy of Salmonelosis

Validity of the diagnostic tests

Definition and importance of validity of diagnostic tests measurement, gold standard,

sensitivity, specificity and predictive value calculation, design and strategy of population

screening programme

Summer Semester

Intestinal bacterial infections (food-borne bacterial disease)

Epidemiological characteristics of etiological agents, differential diagnosis, epidemic

measures. Epidemic of thyphoid fever, practical example.

Viral Hepatitis

Epidemiological features, diagnostics, preventive and epidemic measures, occurrence.

Infectious agents, epdiemiological characteristics and differences of viral hepatitis A, B, C,

D, E. Differential diagnostics of viral hepatitis.

Acute respiratory illnes

Characteristics of acute respiratory illnesses of viral and mycoplasmal etiology,

epidemiology of influenza, Reye´s syndrome, bird´s influenza, vaccination strategy.

Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS

History, description and case definition, epidemiological features of HIV/AIDS infection,

occurrence in Czech Republic and worldwide, trends and perspectives of therapy and

control.

Geographic distribution of infection + Lyme borreliosis

Characteristics, spectrum of infections, etiologic agents, vectors, reservoir of infectious

agents, host, endemicity, ecology. Examples from Czech Republic and world.

Epidemiology of neuroinfections

In this topic will be described frequency of distribution of neuroinfections in

Czech Republic (encephalitis, meningitis)

Cancer Epidemiology

Most frequent cancer´s incidence and mortality in Czech Republic, secular trend and their

Analysis. Epidemiologic study ? practical exercise.

Immunization

Strategy of active and passive immunization in Czech Republic and new valid vaccination

schedule. Contraindications and complications of vaccination.

Surveillance of the disease

Definition, aims, aspects and elements of surveillance. National surveillance program of

measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis etc.

All Practices topics are illustrated by model situation solving

Entry requirements - Czech
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (10.09.2014)

Splněné povinnosti za 1. dva ročníky (Mkrobiologie, imunologie)

Course completion requirements - Czech
Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (13.09.2017)

Zápočtové test zimní i letní semestr

 

Zimní semestr:

                              Epidemiologická metoda práce

                              Typy epidemiologických studií

                              Deskriptivní charakteristiky - osoba, místo, čas

                              Ukazatele nemocnosti a úmrtnosti

                               Proces šíření nákazy

                              Validita diagnostických testů

 

80% docházky na praktikách, zápočtový test  - 25 otázek multiple choice test - 18 správných odpovědí

Letní semestr:

                          Obecná a speciální epidemiologie

                        Základy pasivní a aktivní imunizace

                        Střevní bakteriální a virové nákazy

                        Respirační virové a bakteriální nákazy

                        Virové hepatitidy

                        HIV/AIDS

                        Nákazy s přírodní ohniskovostí

    

80% docházky na praktikách, zápočtový test  - 25 otázek multiple choice test - 18 správných odpovědí

Zkouška ústní (podmínkou úspěšnost v zápočtovém testu) - rozsah vědomostí viz výše

 
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