EPIDEMIOLOGY OF NUTRITIONAL DISEASE

NUT527

Course Code: NUT527
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 2 + 1
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Merve Özdemir

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Acquire knowledge and skills on scope of the nutritional epidemiology
Acquire knowledge and skills on prevalence of nutritional diseases
Acquire knowledge and skills on Nutritional research design, evolution, choose the statistical analysis and interpretation of the results

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

It is the acquisition of skills such as the frequency of nutritional diseases, research methods, research design, analyzes to determine cause-effect relationships, and interpretation of results.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Importance of epidemiological methods in nutritional research
2^nd Week	Study design, planning and evaluation of nutritional epidemiological studies
3^rd Week	Study design: sampling, study size and power
4^th Week	Measuring exposure and outcomes
5^th Week	Measuring bias sources in nutritional research
6^th Week	Measuring diet-disease (exposure-outcome) associations
7^th Week	Midterm
8^th Week	Food consumption, nutrient intake, and the use of food composition tables
9^th Week	Biomarkers as measures for the assessment of nutritional status
10^th Week	The validation of dietary assessment
11^th Week	Anthropometric measures, design and receiving operation curves
12^th Week	Ecological, cross-sectional, base-line, cohort and case control study design in nutritional studies
13^th Week	Experimental and interventional studies
14^th Week	Interpretation of association, result of nutritional epidemiological studies

Recommended or Required Reading

Tezcan, S., Epidemiyoloji, Tıbbi Araştırmaların Yöntem Bilimi,Hacettepe Halk Sağlığı Vakfı, Yayın No: 92/1, Ankara, 1992.
Bertan, M., Enünlü, T., Bölge Sağlık Yönetiminde Epidemiyoloji El Kitabı, DSÖ, HÜTF Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı, 90/51, Ankara, 1990.
Matgetts, B.M., Nelson, M., Design Concepts in Nutritional Epidemiology, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Langseth,L., Nutritional Epidemiology Possibilities and Limitations, ILSI EUROPE CONCIS1. E MONOGRAPH SERIES, ILSI Europe, 1993
Pysical Status: The use and interpretation of anthropometry, WHO Expert Committee, 1995

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion
Lecture
Questions/Answers
Problem Solving
Project
Report Preparation
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Project	1	40
Presentation of Article	1	20
Other	1	10
Total(%)		100
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		100
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		0
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	3	42
Preparation for Final exam	1	20	20
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	1	1
Homework	4	12	48
Total Work Load			153
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			5.1
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X	X	X
K2
K3	X	X
K4
K5
K6	X	X	X
K7			X
K8			X
K9			X