Epidemiology

 

STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

The evaluation is being held in the Greek language.

• The written final exam of the course, conducted by the Department, includes: Multiple questions test, Open questions with a brief answer, Comparative evaluation of theoretical elements, Brief study of research, Questions for developing subjects.
• The grade of the written exam (80%) and the individual assessments (20%) form the final grade of the course.

All students have access to the written and corrected assignments at the professor’s office. In the first class the students are informed in a written form about the course schedule to be followed each week, which is also posted on the subject’s website. They are also informed verbally and in a written form about the way they are evaluated.

Students are taught during the course the basic and specialized subjects of the course that they should know και they are provided with corresponding questions and exercises, which are evaluated. Analytically at the beginning of the semester, a task of a small range with specific characteristics is assigned to them as well as an autonomous assignment that the student presents to his fellow students. They also produce group work.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is a basic introductory course in the concept of Epidemiology.

The course material aims to introduce students to the basic Concepts, Aims and methods of Epidemiology and their historical review is carried out. Also reported and analyzed are: The modern prism of epidemiological data, the accounting of Epidemiology (morbidity and mortality rates), the study of epidemiological characteristics (person, place, time), the Perspective and Retrospective researches and the Epidemiological consideration of prevention. In this sense the course is the basis on which the student acquires an overall understanding of the relationship between Epidemiology, Public Health and Nursing.

The aim of the course is to develop the ability of students to conduct an epidemiological research using epidemiological methods and tools.

Upon successful completion of the course the student becomes able to:

• Understand the importance of individual’s features, place and time in the incidence of diseases.
• Discusses the uses, capabilities and weaknesses of the various sources of epidemiological data.
• Discusses the uses and applications of epidemiology.
• Understand the differences between different types of epidemiological studies.
• Develop skills in planning, organizing and conducting epidemiological research, sharpening the mind and its ability to manage data.
• Understand the term screening and discuss the desired characteristics of mass screening tests.
• Discusses ways of transmitting infectious diseases and identifies categories of factors that are responsible for infectious diseases.
• Makes decisions for the selection of the most appropriate epidemiological research.
• Understand the contribution of Epidemiology to Clinical and Public Health.
• Discusses the term environmental epidemiology and give examples of environmental factors related to health effects.
• Adapts to new state of technology and know-how for Epidemiological research.
• Work in an interdisciplinary environment.

 

GENERAL COMPETENCES

The course aims to develop the following student skills:

• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies aimed at maintaining and enhancing the health of the population.
• Adaptation to new epidemic situations.
• Data analysis and decision making in cases of epidemics.
• Autonomous work to select the most appropriate epidemiological research.
• In teamwork, identifies the impact of population dynamics on community health.
• Work in an international environment that concerns common causal factors and exchange of modern know-how and technology in dealing with them.
• Work in an interdisciplinary environment for decision-making at the epidemiological level.
• Development of new research ideas-programs in nursing research.
• Design and management of projects in the newly emerging demographic problems.
• Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking in nursing research.