Training Course

Nutritional Epidemiology and Surveillance

Date : October 06 – 27, 2008

 

Objectives

At the end of the course, the participants are able to:

• Understand the basic principles of nutritional epidemiology
• Understand different study designs used in nutritional studies
• Design a nutritional epidemiological investigation
• Understate the definition and concept of survuillance
• Employ the essential steps needed in a nutritional surveillance system

 

 

Topics

 1. Basic Epidemiology (First week)

• Introduction to Epidemiology
• Measures of diseace frequency & vital statistics
• Study design
• Cause-effect relationship
• Measures of association
• Validity, reliability * bias
• Screening
• Design, Planing & evaluation of Epidemiological study

 

2. Nutritional Epidemiology (Second week)

• Introduction to Nutritional Epidemiology
• Measurement in Nutritional Epidemiology
• Ecological studies in Nutritional Epidemiology
• Case-control & cohort studies in Nutritional Epidemiology
• Community & Clinical trial in Nutritional Epidemiology

 

3. Surveillance (Third week)

• Type, definition adn principles of dicease and nutritional surveillance system
• Steps of designing diseases and nutritional surveillance system
• Development of indicators for diseases and nutritional surveillance system
• Experience in the omplementation of several type of surveillance system