Ateneo - UPO

The course will be organized around the reading of articles relating to research originals. In each lesson an article will be read and the following will be discussed: - the methodological aspects - the results - the impact that the results can have in practice The lesson will be organized according to the following schedule: - thematic introduction - reading article - guided discussion - summary lesson A non-exhaustive list of topics is as follows: - identification of the knowledge on which the work is based; - enucleation of the hypotheses and objectives of the research; - recognition of the research design - transversal - cohort - case-control - experimental - frequency measurements - association measures - statistical variability - bias, confounding Furthermore. - editorial process of scientific journals - peer review - the quality of scientific articles - extract databases (Medline, Cinhal etc)

There are no reference texts: the articles that will be read, and the slides displayed, they will be available in the DIR platform

The objectives of the module are: - Know the main concepts of health, promotion and prevention of diseases in public health - use scientific literature in order to obtain useful information understanding the complexity of patients' health problems e the organizational problems of the service in which they operate; - participate in scientific research, actively intervening both in phase of development of the study protocol and interpretation of the results, -how to evaluate the risk of bias of scientific studies

Basics of hygiene and epidemiology

Reading of scientific articles, individually or in groups, and discussion e interpretation of the results

Students with disabilities or specific disorders of Learning (DSA) or with Special Educational Needs (SEN) may require services and tools specific dedicated to them by contacting the Careers and Services Development and Coordination Staff at Students and by consulting the dedicated page on the website University:https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities Students with disabilities, DSA, BES, once taken contact with the University Staff, they can contact the teacher in charge of the course in question to the declension of examination methods, regarding the teaching aspects.

Written test with 10 multiple choice questions regarding a scientific article selected and submitted during the exam.

- Health concept -Promotion and prevention - Determinants and risk factors Tools for measuring health -Epidemiology - frequency measurements - association measures - bias, confounding Critical reading of a scientific article and in particular: - identification of the knowledge on which the work is based; - hypotheses and objectives of the research; - recognition of the research design - transversal - cohort - case-control - experimental

At the end of the course students will be able to: - use scientific literature in order to obtain useful information understanding the complexity of patients' health problems e the organizational problems of the service in which they operate; - participate in scientific research, actively intervening both in phase of development of the study protocol and interpretation of the results.