Social Epidemiology

Aim

INTRODUCTION The course is a mandatory continuation course within public health sciences for students at the Master’s Programme in Public Health Sciences. INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES After completion of the course, the student is expected to know: Knowledge and understanding -understand and explain central epidemiological terms and be able to explain and compare different epidemiological measures -evaluate strengths and weaknesses in different epidemiological designs and methods in social epidemiology -identify possible random and systematic errors and evaluate its impact on results and the interpretation of the study Competence and skills -plan and evaluate choices when designing studies in social epidemiology -analyze and interpret reports within social epidemiology, to judge reliability, validity and conclusions Judgement and approach -evaluate strengths and weaknesses with different definitions and stratifications to describe social status, and evaluate its usefulness in social epidemiological studies -relate to ethical considerations in social epidemiology

Content

The course is based on common epidemiological methods. In particular, issues concerning social epidemiology, from design and implementation to generalizability in different contexts.