Medical Epidemiology

Laboratory for Mother and Child Health

• 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

Laboratory of Medical Researchand Consumer Involvement‍

• Development of information models and training courses
• Organization of consensus conferences, citizen juries, guidelines, 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

Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology

• Assessment of intensive care interventions
• 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

 Laboratory of Medical Informatics‍

• Promotion and development of methods to achieve active involvement, empowerment, and health literacy courses on priority public health issues
• Independent, ad-hoc training and information courses for representatives of citizen and patient associations aimed at providing tools for an effective dialogue with the medical and scientific worlds

“Angelo e Angela VALENTI” Centre for Health Economics

• Economic assessment methods involving the cost and benefit analysis of possible health care alternatives
• Comparative analysis based mainly on the study of foreign health services in order to identify possible novelties to propose to the national health service and to extend, more generally, to the European Union countries