Disciplina: INTENSIVE COURSE ON EPIDEMIOLOGY: SELECTED METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES

• Nome/título
  INTENSIVE COURSE ON EPIDEMIOLOGY: SELECTED METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
• Responsável
  Luiz Roberto Ramos, Prof. Titular de Medicina Preventiva, EPM/UNIFESP
• Corpo Docente
  Prof. Eduardo Simões, MD, MPH, MSc
  Director of the Health and Behavioral Risk Research Center and Distinguished Professor
  School of Medicine, University of Missouri, US
  
  Prof. Simin Liu, MD, PhD
  Professor of Epidemiology
  School of Public Health, Brown University, US
• E-mail para contato
  lrramos1953@gmail.com
• Início - inscrição
  2023-01-03
• Término - inscrição
  2023-03-27
• Início - curso
  2023-04-03
• Término - curso
  2023-04-07
• Local
  Evento será híbrido: Presencial e on-line. A parte presencial será no Anfiteatro Mariana Fernandes na Escola Paulista de Enfermagem
• Dias e Horários
  Segunda, Terça, Quarta, Quinta e Sexta (9-13hs)
• Vagas/ Número máximo de alunos
  100
• Carga horária - Teórica
  12
• Carga horária - Prática
  20
• Carga Horária Total
  32
• Creditos
  2
• Critérios de ingresso
  Alunos regularmente matriculados em programas de pósgraduação e que tenham domínio de inglês
• Ementa
  Overview
  This course is designed to help students develop their abilities to identify gaps in knowledge and the need to match them with the appropriate epidemiological tools. Focus will be in the design and interpretation of populational longitudinal studies, collecting either observation or intervention data, from a wide range of less-than-ideal settings.
  
  Course Dates and Local
  From April 3 (Monday) to April 6 (Thursday)
  Two morning lectures per day: 9am to 10:30am and 11am to 12:30pm
  In-person lectures will be at the School of Nursing of UNIFESP
  At distance lectures will be at the link: Link: https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/webconf/webinar-unifesp
  Afternoons for guided reading
• Avaliação de aprendizagem
  Course structure
  Five-half days of formal didactic lectures both in-person and at distance that are particularly relevant for the design and interpretation of epidemiologic studies, followed by guided readings in afternoons.
• Conteúdo Programático
  Course Topics by Day
  a. Observation studies for raising and testing hypothesis. (April 3)
  b. Cohort studies for calculating relative risks and developing health indexes. (April 4)
  c. Intervention studies for effectiveness evaluation. (April 5)
  d. The role of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis. (April 6)
• Referências
  Readings by Topics:
  a. Observation studies for raising (X-sectional) and testing hypothesis (Case-Control).
  1. Serdula MK, Byers T, Mokdad AH, Simoes E, Mendlein JM, Coates RJ. The association between fruit and vegetable intake and chronic disease risk factors. Epidemiology. 1996 Mar;7(2):161-5. doi: 10.1097/00001648-199603000-00010.
  2. Kahn HS, Simoes EJ, Koponen M, Hanzlick R. The abdominal diameter index and sudden coronary death in men. Am J Cardiol. 1996 Oct 15;78(8):961-4. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00479-1. PMID: 8888678
  3. SIMÕES EJ, HALLAL P, PRATT M, RAMOS LR, MUNK M, DAMASCENO W, PEREZ DP, HOEHNER CM, GILBERTZ D, MALTA DC, BROWNSON R. Effects of a Community-Based, Professionally Supervised Intervention on Physical Activity Levels Among Residents of Recife, Brazil. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 99:68-75, 2009.
  4. MALONE JL, IJAZ K, LAMBERTt L, ROSENCRANS L, PHILLIPS L, TOMLINSON V, ARBISE M, MOOLENAAR RL, DORKIN MS, SIMOES EJ. Investigation of healthcare-associated transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis among patients with malignancies at three hospitals and at a residential facility. Cancer. 2004 Dec 15;101(12):2713-21. doi: 10.1002/cncr.20698. PMID: 15547933.
  
  b. Cohort studies for calculating relative risks and developing health indexes.
  1. RAMOS LR, SIMÕES EJ, ALBERT M. Dependence on daily living and cognitive impairment strongly predicted mortality among elderly residents in Brazil: a two-year follow-up. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 49:1168-1175, 2001.
  2. RIBEIRO, MCM; SAÑUDO, A; SIMÕES, EJ; RAMOS, LR. 2022. Relationship between physical activity and functional capacity change in aged cohort in São Paulo, Brazil. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENFERMAGEM. 75(3) • https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0837
  3. PRINCE MJ ET A. (2021). Intrinsic capacity and its associations with incident dependence and mortality in 10/66 Dementia Research Group studies in Latin America, India, and China: A population-based cohort study. PLOS Medicine, 18(9), e1003097. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003097
  c. Intervention studies for effectiveness evaluation
  1. HARITON E, LOCASCIO JJ. Randomised controlled trials - the gold standard for effectiveness research: Study design: randomised controlled trials. BJOG. 2018 Dec;125(13):1716. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.15199. Epub 2018 Jun 19. PMID: 29916205; PMCID: PMC6235704.
  2. OKORO CA, DHINGRA SS, COATES RJ, ZACK M, SIMOES EJ. Effects of Massachusetts Health Reform on the Use of Clinical Prevent