Study Guide

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Curricula starting in 2022 and earlier

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Basis of Education Competence Standards Structure of Studies Development of Expertise Methods and implementation Course Table

Course Description

Code4 TYGPH80
NameEpidemiology and Health Data Analytics
Credits5 ects
ObjectivesStudent
- is able to critically evaluate and to use techniques of data acquisition, design of studies and data analysis.
- is able to research and to understand epidemiological papers and to examine and evaluate their relevance
- knows about common data analysis workflows and is able to interpret and visualize the achieved results
- knows the basic statistical evaluation procedures used in health research
- acquires the ability to critically analyse existing epidemiological studies with regard to the quality of their statistical processing
- knows epidemiological measures of risk and can calculate them from data
Content- Introduction to concepts and methods of epidemiology
- deepening statistical data analysis
- deepening epidemiological study types
- critical analysis and evaluation of an epidemiological article
- meaningfulness of test procedures
- possible disturbance variables in studies and their prevention or control
- data visualisation
RequirementsIndependent studies, seminars, workshops on methodology
Grading Scale0 - 5
Course materialMoodle learning environment contains materials
Prerequisites
Other ConsiderationsLectures, learning tasks, web-discussions/presentations
Contact
Kouri Pirkko

 

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