Courses
Doctoral Programme in Public Health
General information
| Official Code: | 5233 |
| Acronym: | PDSP |
| Description: | The Doctoral Programme in Public Healthcare offered by FMUP is intended for holders of a bachelor's or a master's degree in medicine and other fields in the health sciences, as well as social sciences and mathematics. In addition to being in contact with highly qualified teaching staff, students also have access to high-end research resources, namely the ones available in the Epidemiology Research Unit – Public Healthcare Institute of the University of Porto (EPIUnit) and in the Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR). The programme also has privileged relationships with European research and training networks since it is a member of ASPHER. |
Certificates
- Public Health (180 ECTS credits)
- Curso de Doutoramento em Saúde Pública (60 ECTS credits)
Courses Units
Journal Club
Individual Project
Topical Seminars
This Unit aims to acquire knowledge and discuss subjects with relevance to contemporary Public Health. In this unit it is expected that the students get to know some of the major public health issues in the national and international arenas, namely regarding the burden of most communicable and non-communicable diseases in different settings and the policies directed to prevent treat and manage those conditions, at the local, regional national and international levels. Students are also expected to get to know overlapping areas between the practice of public health and a number of complementary areas of knowledge, such as environment, economy, work, or the organization of urban space.
Health Systems Administration
To understand health systems governance and public health leadership as key elements of an integral response to populations’ health needs.
Challenges in Epidemiologic Research
Ethics and Philosophy of Science
- To work on conceptual and etiological issues that are essential to building a solid knowledge of ethics and philosophy of science, with particular emphasis on public health.
- To apply the concepts discussed to contemporary public health practice, from a critical perspective.
Health Research Methods
Health Statistic Methods I
Health Statistic Methods II
It is aimed that the student:
a) understands the logistic regression model and the most used survival models
b) identifies and recognizes scenarios of application for each studied model
c) knows how to consider categorical exploratory variables in the analysis
d) knows how to identify and to model interactions
e) recognizes the importance of a model's goodness-of-fit evaluation and diagnostic plots and knows how to implement it
f) develops critical thinking skills and the ability to correctly interpret the results from the statistical analysis
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Systematic reviews are becoming more frequent in the scientific literature, which contributes to an increase in the transparency and quality of literature reviews.
This curricular unit aims to introduce the most relevant methodological aspects related to systematic reviews of the literature, as well as the scientific basis for quantitative synthesis through meta-analysis.Health Comunication
Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
Acquisition of knowledge about the burden of the most prevalent chronic (non-communicable) diseases and their time trends in the population.
Recognition of the specificities of different groups of chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, musculoskeletal conditions) and consequent implications for the epidemiological investigation of each nosologic group.
To explore prevention and management of chronic diseases, namely the intervention in the main risk factors.
Field Epidemiology
Social Studies in Public Health
To identify, explore and analyze the cultural, social, economic and political dimensions of health and medicine
Research in Health Services
Advanced Methods of Geographical Information Systems
Advanced Methods in Qualitative Data Analysis
To identify the suitability of the various strategies of qualitative health research. To handle and analyze information in order to write and publish qualitative studies. To understand the ethical dimensions involved in the use of qualitative methodology in the various phases of the research process.
Advanced Epidemiologic Methods
To know the main frameworks for causal inference applied to epidemiologic research.
To identify challenges to the validity and applicability of epidemiological studies and to identify advanced methodological approaches to deal with them.
Nutrition and Health
To gain knowledge and develop skills in methods and dietary determinants relevant for public health.
To develop students' skills for the planning and development of research on Nutrition and health.
Helath Promotion
Global Health
This course aims to foster Public Health students’ knowledge of International and Global Health, namely on the key public health challenges and their geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic patterns, the most relevant risk factors, and their interaction. A focus on the key actors and the successful international strategies and programs for the promotion of global health, will be given, together with a discussion on the role of participation, co-production, and governance.
This course will not only cover key concepts but the theoretical content will be oriented to its practical application, and complemented with field visits and discussions with persons from different geographic and socioeconomic contexts.
Measuring Health
To gain theoretical and practical knowledge in the development and application of instruments for the evaluation of objective and subjective health measures.
Curricular Unit Independent 1
Unidade curricular optativa livre 2
Unidade curricular optativa livre 3
Unidade curricular optativa livre 4
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