Study programme 2021-2022 | Français | ||
General Epidemiology | |||
Learning Activity |
Code | Lecturer(s) | Associate Lecturer(s) | Subsitute Lecturer(s) et other(s) | Establishment |
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M-DOYM-045 |
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Language of instruction | Language of assessment | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Term |
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Français | Français | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q2 |
Content of Learning Activity
- Some historical bases having led to the development of clinical epidemiology;
- The peculiarities of epidemiological reasoning and the notion of group;
- The basic tools for describing the frequency of a disease in a population: proportion, ratio, rate, index;
- Incidence measures: absolute incidence, cumulative incidence and concept of risk, attack rate, incidence rate or incidence density;
- Prevalence. Link between incidence and prevalence;
- Mortality in epidemiology: absolute mortality, crude mortality rate and overall mortality, specific mortality, proportional mortality, lethality, "case fatality rate" and "infection fatality rate", life expectancy, years of potential life lost (YPLL), premature mortality, DALY, standardized mortality and SMR;
- Descriptive and analytical observational epidemiological studies (in particular case-control and cohort studies); relative risk, difference and excess risk; relative change in RR; OR and its 95% CI,
- Interventional epidemiological studies: RCT and its basic principles (randomization and types of randomization, blind concept, control group, judgment criteria, superiority or non-inferiority trials, number of subjects to be treated (NNT), ...);
- The concept of bias and confounding factor; types of bias and examples; structure of a confounder and examples; respective control methods for biases and confounding factors (restriction, stratification, matching, multivariate analyzes, etc.);
- Causality in epidemiology; causality according to Henlé-Koch and according to Bradford Hill.
Required Reading
Note de cours - Epidémiologie générale - Christophe Lelubre
Required Learning Resources/Tools
PDF documents
Recommended Learning Resources/Tools
Clinical epidemiology Alfredo Morabia
Other Recommended Reading
Clinical epidemiology (Alfredo Morabia)
Mode of delivery
Type of Teaching Activity/Activities
Evaluations
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