Nutritional Epidemiology

Course Description

COURSE CONTENT

• Analytical methods in nutritional epidemiology (quantification of observations, measures of relationship, application of statistical methods)
• Types of epidemiological studies (analytical and experimental)
• Modelling and conducting the nutritional epidemiological study
• Nutrition and public health (relation between nutrition and chronic diseases/alimentary infections, public health interventions in nutrition-related chronic diseases)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Calculation of epidemiological measures: prevalence, incidence, relative risk, Odds ratio, attributable risk.
• Standardization and comparison of epidemiological data.
• Use of basic statistical methods in data analysis.
• Selection and use of optimal epidemiological design in analyzing the relationship between diet and health.
• Identification of nutritional risk factors for common chronic diseases.
• Use of available databases for getting epidemiological data on nutrition-related diseases