Ateneo - UPO

The health status of a population
Demographic trends and health needs
Healthy life expectancy
Health problem
Burden of Disease
Daly in Italy for illnesses and risks
Health problem and health need
Definition of Health Needs Assessment
Fries model
Indicators for measuring health needs
Model for estimating the priority of a health problem
Data for estimating health needs
The risk factors
International data
Demography: the population pyramid and the main demographic indicators
Analysis of the health context
Responses to the health needs of the population:
Development of a needs analysis

Lessons' slides and other documents shared in the DIR of the course. Faggiano et al. Manuale di epidemiologia per la sanità pubblica. Centro Scientifico Editore

To conduct a health needs analysis of a population based on health and social data available to the healthcare personnel.
Build effective response strategies to health needs on the basis of scientific evidence, through consultation of adequate scientific databases.

Basic knowledge in epidemiology and medical statistics

The course will consist of lectures, exercises relating to research and critical analysis of relevant documentation and group work for the design of surveys and interventions

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Multiple-choice questionnaires, based on scenario analysis or activity science reports. Approximately, there are 8 questions for each credit, which may however vary with the variation of their complexity.

The health status of a population
- Life expectancy at birth and at 65 years as general health indicators
- Life expectancy trends
- Life expectancy and COVID
- Infant mortality and trends
- Fertility trends
Demographic trends and health needs
- Increased life expectancy
- Decreased fertility
- aging indeces
- Pyramid of the Italian population
Healthy life expectancy
Health problem
- Definition
- Types and examples
- Definition of observed and expected
Burden of Disease
- Definition and usefulness
-GBD
- DALYs and composition of DALYs
Daly in Italy for illnesses and risks
- Construction of the Dalys
- Use of IHME GBD Compare
Health problem and health need
- Quantification of health needs
- Definition of the need for prevention
Definition of Health Needs Assessment
Fries model
Indicators for measuring health needs
- Frequency indicators
- Prevalence and incidence
- Association indicators
- Impact indicators
Model for estimating the priority of a health problem
- Frequency
- Severity
- Resolvability
- Urgency
Data for estimating health needs
- Mortality
- Medical records
- etc
The risk factors
- Risk Survey (PASSI)
- Multipurpose ISTAT Survey
- EUROSTAT
International data
- GBD
- Eurostat
- Istat
Demography: the population pyramid and the main demographic indicators
- Age and marital status
Analysis of the health context
- Disadvantaged groups
- Local offers
- NGO
- Volunteers
- Community centres
- Cultural centres
Answers:
- primary prevention programs
- secondary prevention programs
- tertiary prevention programs
- Prevention and chronicity plans
- DM77
Develop a needs analysis

At the end of the course the student will be able to develop an analysis of the needs of the population in charge, through the use of available data organized ad hoc.
On this basis you will be able to collaborate in the construction of a response strategy based on evidence-based interventions