Ä°SG604 - APPLICATION of EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APPLICATION of EPIDEMIOLOGY IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH | Ä°SG604 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Discussion Team/Group Work Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Other: Reading, discussion of current articles, short presentations | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Sibel Kiran MD. PhD., Prof. Ahmet Uğur Demir MD. Msc., Prof. Ali Naci Yıldız MD. PhD., | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of this course is to learn; Concept of occupational epidemiology Features of various research methods and principles of implementation in occupational health and a research/proposal preparation -Discussion and evaluation of selected articles on occupational health | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Principles of occupational health and research; Sources of data on occupational health Application of epidemiology in occupational health: Basic-primary-secondary research in occupational health, descriptive, cross sectional, repeated cross-sectional, comparative studies, cohort, case-control, process evaluation and intervention studies, validity and accuracy, diagnostic studies and survey research and standardisation usage in the field of occupational health. Epidemiology in OH services: Accident epidemiology, Risk epidemiology; Writing research proposal and report; | |||||
| References | 1. ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Snashall D. & Patell D. Second Edition, BMJ publishing Book 2004. 2. Occupational Health Practice, Waldron HA, Edling C, 4th ed, 2004. 3. Research methods in Occupational Epidemiology, Chekoway H, Pearce N, Kriebel D. Oxford University press, Second Ed. 2004 4. Textbook of ClinicalOccupational and Environmental Medicine, Rodenstock L, Cullen MR, Brodkin CA, Redlich CA, 2th ed, 2005. 5. Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ladou J, Harrison R, 5th ed, Mc Graw Hill, 2007. 6. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 15th ed, Wallace RB, Kohatsu N. The McGraw-Hill Companies, USA, 2008. 7. Guidotti TL. Global Occupational Health. New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. 8. Oxford Textbook of Public Health, ed. Detels R, Beaglehole R, Lansang A and Gulliford M. Oxford University Press. Fifth ed. 2011, 9. İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği, N. Bilir, AN. Yıldız, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayını, 2014. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Principles of occupational health |
| Week 2 | Introduction to epidemiology, types of studies |
| Week 3 | Application of epidemiology in occupational health |
| Week 4 | Descriptive studies, Standardization |
| Week 5 | Cross sectional studies |
| Week 6 | Cohort studies |
| Week 7 | Case-control studies |
| Week 8 | Intervention studies |
| Week 9 | Validity and accuracy, diagnostic tests |
| Week 10 | Survey |
| Week 11 | Epidemiology in OH services (Accident epidemiology, Risk epidemiology) |
| Week 12 | Basic statistical methods |
| Week 13 | Writing research proposal and report |
| Week 14 | Sources of data |
| Week 15 | General discussion |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 20 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 1 | 20 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 1 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 7 | 98 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Workload | 31 | 35 | 180 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest