Ateneo - UPO

- The main objectives of scientific research
- The natural history of the disease and the role of prevention
- Different types of prevention and health promotion
- Concepts of disease determinants and risk factors
- Concepts and measures of the impact of a prevention intervention
- The Global Burden of Disease project
- The complexity of primary prevention
- Role and need for evidence of effectiveness
- Sources of evidence: Medline and the Cochrane library
- The path from evidence production to practice
- Systematic reviews and public health guidelines
- Nutrition and physical activity
- Mediterranean diet
-Plant Based Diet
- Planetary Diet

Slides and scientific papers

- Understand the different prevention concepts and their role within health interventions
- Understand and discuss the concept of health promotion and the main interventions that promote health
- Extract data from the tools made available by the Blobal Burde of Disease to estimate the need for prevention of a specific population - Identify effective interventions for promoting a healthy diet in scientific research databases
- Discuss the role of effectiveness and coverage of an intervention in determining the health impact in a given population

Basic epidemiology and medical statistics Human nutrition

Lectures, discussion of cases, research in literature databases and reading of articles and interactive games to verify learning

Some lessons will require computer exercices

Multiple choice quiz

- The origins of scientific research on health and the causes of diseases
- The main objectives of scientific research - The natural history of disease
- Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- Universal, selective and indicated prevention
- Health promotion - Concepts of disease determinants and risk factor
- Measures of association
- Concepts and measures of the impact of a prevention intervention
- The Global Burden of Disease project
- Role and need for evidence of effectiveness - Sources of evidence: Medline and the Cochrane library
- Role of coverage on the impact of prevention
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: How to conduct a review and formulate a PICO question
- The path from evidence production to practice - Public health guidelines
- Choices that promote health
- Nutrition and physical activity: WHO guidelines
- Mediterranean diet
-Plant Based Diet
- Planetary Diet

Development of the ability to identify health and prevention needs in a population. Literature search to identify effective health promotion interventions. Skill of understand the role of effectiveness and coverage in the usefulness of a prevention intervention.