Dentistry and Dental Prosthodontics

The course will provide students with knowledge and skills to understand and critically analyze the main socio-health phenomena, developing abilities in interpretation, evaluation, and practical application of epidemiological methodologies. Students will acquire the ability to appropriately use tools to assess and interpret the main socio-health indicators. They will learn to identify and describe health indicators, such as infant mortality, and demographic indicators, such as population pyramids. The program will allow students to understand the principles of basic epidemiology, and they will learn to correctly use and interpret measures of disease frequency and measures of association, including prevalence, incidence, relative and attributable risks, odds ratio, cause-effect relationships, confounding, and bias. The course will guide students in identifying and addressing emerging threats to public health, with particular attention to tobacco. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge related to tobacco use and the reasons why training in this field is essential. They will further their understanding of epidemiological data concerning consumer products, the mechanisms of nicotine dependence, the health risks associated with the use of tobacco and nicotine-containing products, and the benefits of smoking and nicotine cessation.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Edited by Charles Guest, Walter Ricciardi, Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2020 (a few chapters)

The course will provide students with knowledge and skills to understand and critically analyze the main socio-health phenomena, developing abilities in interpretation, evaluation, and practical application of epidemiological methodologies. Students will acquire the ability to appropriately use tools to assess and interpret the main socio-health indicators. They will learn to identify and describe health indicators, such as infant mortality, and demographic indicators, such as population pyramids. The program will allow students to understand the principles of basic epidemiology, and they will learn to correctly use and interpret measures of disease frequency and measures of association, including prevalence, incidence, relative and attributable risks, odds ratio, cause-effect relationships, confounding, and bias. The course will guide students in identifying and addressing emerging threats to public health, with particular attention to tobacco. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge related to tobacco use and the reasons why training in this field is essential. They will further their understanding of epidemiological data concerning consumer products, the mechanisms of nicotine dependence, the health risks associated with the use of tobacco and nicotine-containing products, and the benefits of smoking and nicotine cessation.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Edited by Charles Guest, Walter Ricciardi, Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang. Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2020 (a few chapters)