Abstract

This week, we will take you on an insightful tour of the ruling concepts of your prospective career as a healthcare professional. The tour starts with exploring the concept of "health" and how its definition can impact your daily decisions. Then we proceed to learn the heterogeneous theories behind "disease" and how we should think of it conceptually today. The next station will be more revealing for you because you will get an overview of disease classification, burden, and trends. After the short break, the meaty part comes, and you will get a grasp of the basis of disease frequency estimation, including ratio, rate, incidence, and prevalence. At the end of our tour, you will learn "mortality" types and their utilization.

Presentation

Please find the slides of the seminar here.

Please find the video record of Mortality.

 Please find the video record of the guiding tips for case-studies.

Resources

Please read the following references before fulfilling your homework assignment:

1. (Required)
Book: Basic Epidemiology (2nd ed)
Author(s): Ruth BONITA, Robert BEAGLEHOLE, and Tord KJELLSTRÖM
Chapter 2: Measuring health and disease - Pages: 15-30

2. (Required)
Book: Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice (3rd ed)
Author(s): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Lesson Three: Measures of Risk - Section One: Frequency Measures

3. (Required)
Huber Machteld, Knottnerus J André, Green Lawrence, Horst Henriëtte van der, Jadad Alejandro R, Kromhout Daan et al. How should we define health? BMJ 2011; 343 :d4163

4. (Optional)
National Health Portal of India. Causation of Diseases. Available from: https://www.nhp.gov.in/causation-of-diseases_mtl

Assignment (Repetition)

Please open this assignment and respond by December 6th, 2020 (23:59 CEST).
- This is a one-time log-in application, this means that you will not be able to open it more than once.
- The time limit for filling-in this assignment is 60 minutes.
- This week assignment consists of 15 questions (15 multiple-choice questions).