Medical Epidemiology

• monitoring and epidemiological evaluation of the use, and effects, of drugs and vaccines
• evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic pathways carried out in the paediatric population for neuropsychiatric disorders
• interventions in the general hospital and primary care practices
• analysis of the socio-sanitary variables related to health status, with a focus on children
• transfer of health information to the community
• development of information models and training courses
• organization of consensus conferences, citizen juries, guidelines, register, ad-hoc surveys with associations, research on the knowledge/attitudes/behaviours of citizens, patients, and associations, disease registries, and literature reviews
• evaluation of the type and quality of disease and treatment information provided
• research on the best ways to disseminate information on health and on the results of scientific research
• development and improvement of decision aids and internet websites
• assessment of intensive care interventions
• development of mathematical models for the study of pathophysiology in the critical patient
• development of databases and platforms for sharing data in clinical research. Management of legal, technological and scientific issues to guarantee patient privacy
• probabilistic models that permit the evaluation and continuous improvement of clinical activities
• development of informatics technologies aimed at supporting the management of information and clinical knowledge in all its phases, from the manual or automatic collection of data to the redistribution of new knowledge
• design, conduction, and statistical analysis of observational epidemiological studies on the influence of a wide array of risk factors on specific diseases and conditions such as allergies and nosocomial or other types of infections
• conduction and analysis of case-control and cohort studies to quantify the association between lifestyles and environmental factors and the risk of disease
• population-based cross-sectional studies for the monitoring of tobacco smoking, e-cigarette and heated tobacco product use, alcohol consumption, obesity, and other risk factors
• systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies using an innovative and original method for searching publications

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