IRO Egas Moniz - Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutritional Epidemiology

Epidemiologia Nutricional

Course code:9554408

Renata Catarina Gonçalves Ramalho

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

The general aim of this Curricular Unit is to sensitize students to the importance of dietary factors and occurrence of specific diseases associations. It also has specific objectives: to encourage the application of epidemiological knowledge in health promotion and in Public Health specific strategies; to reveal the importance of methodology in the development of evidence-based clinical decisions; and to stimulate both the epidemiological research and the scientific communication in Nutrition.

Skills to be developed:

To understand and use correctly the specific concepts of Epidemiology.
To formulate hypotheses on the association between dietary factors, nutrition and disease.
To recognize the most appropriate epidemiological study to test a hypothesis in Nutritional Epidemiology.
To recognize the sources of error and to implement the quality control of data collection and interpretation.
To critically analyse data from scientific press.

Syllabus:

Lectures:

Definition of Epidemiology and Nutritional Epidemiology
Measurement of health and disease
Types of studies
Causality
Communicable diseases: epidemiology, surveillance and response
Clinical Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology

Theoretical / practical classes:

The theoretical-practical classes are taught according to a problem-based learning model, consisting of the resolution of practical worksheets related to theoretical subjects.
Epidemiology of noncommunicable diseases: the following seminars will be prepared and presented by the students:

2.1. Epidemiology of malnutrition associated with the disease

2.2. The epidemiology of digestive cancers and genital and urinary tract cancers

2.3. The epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases

2.4. The epidemiology of obesity

2.5. The epidemiology of type I and type II diabetes

2.6. The epidemiology of iron deficiency

2.7. The epidemiology of vitamin D deficiency

2.8. The epidemiology of arterial hypertension

2.9. The epidemiology of neurological diseases

2.10. The epidemiology of eating disorders

Suggested Bibliography:

Willet W (2012) Nutritional Epidemiology, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0199754038
Gordis L (2011) Epidemiologia, 4th ed., Lusodidacta. ISBN: 978-989-8075-30-7
Bonita R, Beaglehole R & Kjellstrom (2006) Basic Epidemiology, 2nd ed., WHO. ISBN: 92-4-154707-3
Friis RH & Sellers TA (2015) Epidemiology for Public Health Practice, 3rd ed., Jones and Bartlett. ISBN: 978-1-4496-6549-4

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