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| HAS 522 | Basic Epidemiology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of PUBLIC HEALTH | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Murat TOPBAŞ | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To learn principles of the epidemiology. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | Describe using area of epidemiologic research | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 2 : | Explain basic epidemiologic measure | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 3 : | Select appropiate epidemiologic methods for research | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3 | | PO - 4 : | Planning spesific epidemiologic research | 1,2,3,4 | 1,3 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Measurement of exposure, study designs, prevention , clinical epidemiology, causation in epidemiology, environmental and occupational epidemiology |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Epidemiology; description, strategies and historical process | | | Week 2 | Basic epidemiological approaches
Classification of epidemiologic research
| | | Week 3 | Basic epidemiological approaches
Classification of epidemiologic research
| | | Week 4 | Descriptive research, samples of articles examining
| | | Week 5 | Case - control study, samples of articles examining
| | | Week 6 | Cohort studies, samples of articles examining
| | | Week 7 | Experimental studies and examples of articles examining | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Methodological research, examples of articles examining | | | Week 10 | The concept of causality | | | Week 11 | Epidemiology of infectious diseases | | | Week 12 | Epidemiology of chronic diseases | | | Week 13 | Epidemiology in Management | | | Week 14 | Research planning
Report Writing | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Beaglehole, R., Bonita,R., Kjellström, T. 2006 Basic Epidemiology, WHO | | | 2 | Pigeot AWI (eds.) 2005 Handbook of Epidemiology , Springer, German | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 08 | | 1 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 4
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9 | | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 18 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 1 | 5 | 5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 64 |
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