Chronic disease epidemiology, 5.0 Credits

About the course

The course is designed to provide graduate students with knowledge on major chronic diseases and skill on applying various epidemiologic methods to design and conduct epidemilogical studies on chronic diseases. This course covers an overview of chronic diseases burden, and various researches and surveillance activities to prevent and control their burden. The concept of risk factors and chronic diseases outcome will be introduced and studies to measure risk factors burden will be introduced and studies to measure risk factors burden will be discussed. Different methodological issues in measuring risk factors across cultures and settings will be introduced. Students wil have a chance to learn about life course perspective in chronic disease epidemiology. After completion of the course the student should be able to: Understand the development of chronic disease burden and the prevention and control activities; Describe, understand and able to design, conduct, analysis and evaluate methods to ascertain the association between risk factors and chronic diseases; Appraise evidence for chronic diseases and their risk facots intervention.

Teaching on the course is concentrated to two weeks during the course period. Teaching is conducted through lectures (80%) and group exercises (20%). During group exercises, students will learn to appraise chronic disease epidemiologic articles critically. Both the lectures and group exercises are compulsory. All teaching is given in English.

Level of Education: Advanced

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2011-03-15