Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Code
11760
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências da Terra
Credits
8.0
Teacher in charge
Jorge Manuel Torgal Dias Garcia
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
- Understanding the health issues from a community perspective.
- Knowing the determinants that influence health status / illness needs population health and care delivery.
- Learning methodologies to characterize the phenomena of health and disease in population and their quantification.
- Studying perspectives and techniques of community intervention, health promotion and prevention of disease.
- Know the health system, the structure of the different services and the roles of health professionals.
- Understanding human rights and the right to health, enshrined in the Constitution and international treaties.
- Understand the scientific method and its application in Public Health.
- Know how to communicate results of scientific research in oral and written form.
Subject matter
- PUBLIC HEALTH - GLOBAL VISION AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- DESCRITIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY, ECOLOGICAL STUDIES, INFORMATION SOURCES
- HEALTH INDICATORS
- HEALTH AND POPULATION
- BIOSTATISTICS
- PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS
- COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH
- DIABETES - PROBLEMA MAJOR DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA
- MIGRATIONS AND HEALTH
- GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
Bibliography
-An Introduction to Medical Statistics, 3.ed, Oxford University press, Blund, M., 2000
http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/statistics-square-one#Anchor-11.1
- Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health. Aschengrau A. e Seage III G.R., 2008. Jones and Barthett Publishers
- Epidemiology. Gordis L. Barnes & Noble, 2008
Evaluation method
Examination to assess knowledge of all theoretical subjects for testing.