Studying at the University of Verona
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Methodologies and instruments for the identification of health needs (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S010747
Credits
6
Coordinator
Language
Italian
Courses Single
Not Authorized
The teaching is organized as follows:
Learning objectives
The teaching aims to provide students with the main methods to build databases and database linkage for health analysis and the methodology and tools to develop an evidence-based public health approach. It also introduces students to the use of software for epidemiological statistical analysis.
- Describe the fundamental components of a calculation tool.
- Effectively “feed” dashboards/databases in order to inform decisions and subsequent evidence/data-driven systems for evaluating efficiency and effectiveness.
- Describe the steps of evidence-based practice and its contribution in shared public health and prevention decision making.
- Recognise primary, secondary-integrative sources of scientific information and bibliographic search systems; and interpret the main national and international guidelines in the field of prevention and health promotion and the main bibliographic research methods.
- Understand and analyse the characteristics and elements of major study designs: epidemiological, experimental, and qualitative research designs.
- Interpret and set up measures of association, tests of sensitivity and specificity of a test, likelihood, and ROC curve.
- Recognise and analyse techniques for developing and conducting an interview.
- Develop and administer a questionnaire.
- Recognise and administer the features of qualitative and quantitative research, with special attention to tools and methods.
Examination methods: To pass the exam, students will have to:
- Demonstrate the ability to identify the characteristics of an epidemiological study and interpret the statistical processing performed.
- Demonstrate in the computer room that they can effectively set up a bibliographical search in PubMed with free keywords and MESH terms starting from PICO.
- Elaborate and simulate the conduction of an interview and the administration of a questionnaire.
- Consult and interpret an evidence-based guideline.
Prerequisites and basic notions
It is necessary that students have comprehended the knowledge imparted in the "Epidemiology and Statistics" course.
Bibliography
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The grade will be the arithmetic mean of the scores obtained in the exam tests of the individual modules, weighted by the number of credits for each module. The vote will be expressed out of thirty.
