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课程名称：公共卫生实践中的数据与健康指标 课程概述：流行病学常被视为公共卫生的基石科学。在公共卫生实践中，流行病学利用研究设计和分析来识别疫情中的病因，指导改善人口健康的干预措施，并评估项目和政策的效果。本课程将定义专业流行病学家在公共卫生服务、职能和能力方面的角色。在此基础上，我们将介绍问题解决方法，并演示如何在各种环境中使用该方法来识别问题、提出解决方案和评估干预效果。该方法依赖于可靠的数据，因此我们将深入探讨公共卫生数据系统，这些数据系统是流行病学的核心，最后我们将学习如何利用这些数据计算人群中的疾病负担。 课程大纲： 1. 介绍与问题解决方法：我们将介绍问题解决方法，该方法是识别公共卫生问题、建立真正存在问题的案例、建议干预措施及其评估和传播结果的重要工具。 2. 公共卫生中的数据源：我们将深入探讨流行病学的核心——数据！具体而言，我们将研究常规和公共卫生数据系统。 3. 疾病负担的衡量：我们将使用常规和公共卫生信息系统中的数据来衡量人群中的疾病负担。我们将计算粗死亡率，并应用直接和间接的年龄标准化方法。 4. 健康指标：我们将讨论健康指标，它们是衡量人口健康的重要指标。我们将探讨良好健康指标的特征，以提供选择公共卫生问题的健康指标的指导。接着，我们将以肝癌发生率这个健康指标为例，探索描述性流行病学，按照人、地点和时间对肝癌发生率进行分层，以提高我们在描述性流行病学方面的技能。
Name:Introduction and Problem-Solving Methodology
Description:In this module, we will introduce the problem solving methodology. This methodology is a powerful tool that can useful when identifying a public health problem, building the case that there truly is a problem, suggesting interventions, and suggestions ways to evaluate the interventions and disseminate the findings of the evaluation.
Name:Data Sources in Public Health
Description:In this module, we dive deeper into what lies at the heart of epidemiology: data! More specifically, we will look at routine and public health data systems.
Name:Measures of Disease Burden
Description:In this module we will use data from routine and public health information systems to measure the burden of disease in the population. We will calculate crude mortality rates, and then apply direct and indirect age standardization methods.
Name:Health Indicators
Description:In this module, we'll discuss health indicators, which are important measurements of the health of a population. There are numerous health indicators that help us paint the picture of a populations health. We'll talk about characteristics of good health indicators to provide a little guidance on how to choose health indicators for the public health problem of interest. Then, we'll use the example of the health indicator of liver cancer incidence to explore descriptive epidemiology. We will stratify liver cancer incidence by person, place, and time, to build our skills in descriptive epidemiology.
Epidemiology is often described as the cornerstone science in public health. Epidemiology in public health practice uses study design and analyses to identify causes in an outbreak situation, guides interventions to improve population health, and evaluates programs and policies. In this course, we'll define the role of the professional epidemiologist as it relates to public health services, functions, and competencies. With that foundation in mind, we'll introduce you to the problem solving methodology and demonstrate how it can be used in a wide variety of settings to identify problems, propose solutions, and evaluate interventions. This methodology depends on the use of reliable data, so we'll take a deep dive into the routine and public health data systems that lie at the heart of epidemiology and then conclude with how you can use that data to calculate measures of disease burden in populations.
