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Years 1-2 · Medicine · Medical University, Varna

Social Medicine and Biostatistics: notes and exam prep for MU Varna

Social Medicine and Biostatistics for Years 1-2 Medicine at the Medical University, Varna: all 38 syllabus topics in 4 sections, with exam-focused notes, figures and flashcards.

What Social Medicine and Biostatistics has on SuperMed

  • Notes on 4 of the 38 topics so far, written to answer the syllabus question as it is asked, with 13 figures and diagrams.
  • 178 flashcards for the facts you have to recall, with spaced review.

The Social Medicine and Biostatistics syllabus

Every topic, numbered as the department numbers it.

Social medicine14 topics

  1. 1Social Medicine as a science - subject matter, objectives and methodsfree
  2. 2Health and disease - contemporary definitions. Dimensions of health. Health continuum. Life cycle and health. Salutogenesisfree
  3. 3WHO's concept of social determinants of health and inequalities in healthfree
  4. 3Social factors of health and disease. Classification. Effects of poverty, education, occupation, social network on healthfree
  5. 4Medical demography - terminology, indicators, measuring population change, sources of data, demographic transitionfree
  6. 5Demographic approach to population health assessment. Population statics. Age structure of the population. Population age pyramid. Medical and social implications of population ageing
  7. 7Population dynamics. Migration - types of migration processes. Health influences of migration
  8. 8Population dynamics. Natural movement of the population. Population reproduction rates. Physician's obligations in the registration of vital events
  9. 8Fertility related indicators. Birth rate - definition, worldwide trends and regional variation. Family planning and reproductive behavior
  10. 9Mortality related indicators. Crude death rate - definition, worldwide trends and regional variation. Standardized mortality rates. Proportional mortality. Maternal mortality
  11. 10Infant mortality - definition, worldwide trends and regional variation. Under-5 mortality rate
  12. 11Life expectancy - definition, life tables, worldwide trends and regional variation
  13. 11Integral measures of population health - Healthy life expectancy, Disability adjusted life years, avoidable mortality
  14. 11Major diseases - definition, criteria, trends of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Global burden of diseases

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Biostatistics12 topics

  1. 1Types of data and measurement scales
  2. 2Descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency
  3. 2Variability. Measures of variability
  4. 3Proportions and rates - crude, specific and standardized (adjusted) rates
  5. 4Population and samples. Empirical distributions. The normal distribution
  6. 6Statistical inference of parameters, point and interval estimates. Confidence intervals
  7. 8Statistical hypotheses testing. Types of hypotheses
  8. 10Parametric methods for hypotheses testing. T-test. Types, usage
  9. 12Analysis of variance. Usage
  10. 13Non-parametric tests for hypotheses testing. Chi-square test. Types, usage
  11. 15Analysis of relationships. Correlation
  12. 16Analysis of relationships. Regression

Epidemiological study designs4 topics

  1. 19Types of epidemiological studies - classification. Descriptive studies. Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Applications in medical practice
  2. 19Analytical epidemiological studies. Case control studies - types, design, conducting, advantages and disadvantages, potential errors
  3. 19Analytical epidemiological studies. Cohort studies - types, design, conducting, advantages and disadvantages
  4. 19Experimental epidemiological studies - randomized control trials, field trials, community trials - design, conducting, applications

Epidemiology and prevention (annotation additions)8 topics

  1. 1Epidemiological transition and current trends in population morbidity
  2. 2Epidemiological approach in social medicine. Scope, essence and applications of epidemiology in medicine and health care
  3. 3Measuring disease frequency. Comparing disease occurrence. Absolute and relative comparison (risk difference, etiological fraction, population attributable risk, relative risk, odds ratio)
  4. 3Major determinants of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCD). Strategies for prevention and control of NCD
  5. 4Causality in epidemiology and errors in epidemiological research; critical analysis of scientific publications
  6. 5Evidence Based Medicine - basic concepts. Rating of evidences
  7. 6Disease prevention - essence, scope and levels. Strategies of primary prevention. Screening - definition, types, measures of screening tests performance
  8. 7Global problems of public health. International health cooperation - needs, objectives and types. World Health Organization (WHO)

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