Evidence, Diet and Health
Course content
The focus of the course is how to assess available evidence for a causal relationship between diet and diseases with a main focus on diet, macronutrients and life-style diseases such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The course will provide the students with theoretical teaching in the methodology, several examples and exercises and assignments that gives them opportunity to practise.
MSc Programme in Clinical Nutrition
MSc Programme in Human Nutrition
The main objective of the course is to provide the students with
an understanding of basic methods and concepts in nutritional
epidemiology, to enable them to assess available evidence for a
causal relationship between diet and diseases.
After completion of the course the students should be able to:
Knowledge:
- Define epidemiology and causality
- Describe the epidemiological measures of frequency and
association
- Explain the concepts bias, confounding, effect modification,
chance, power, validity and generalisability
- List the study designs, and describe their advantages and
limitations in relation to nutritional epidemiology
- Describe the structure of a data set, and types of variables
Skills:
- Demonstrate ability to critically assess the validity of studies
on the relation between diet and disease
- Demonstrate ability to handle a data set with nutritional
variables, and to assess for confounding and effect modification
- Discuss the evidence for causal relationship between diet and
disease
Competences:
- Independently perform evidence evaluations of relationships
between dietary components and health
- Identify gabs in our current knowledge and to contribute to the
planning of studies that will make progress
- Make dietary recommendations based on an evaluation of the
evidence
Theoretical lectures and exercise practice. The objective of course assignments is to use of the principles in evaluation of scientific evidence.
Course literature will be announced at study start on the course’s Absalon page.
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree are
recommended.
Knowledge and skills in nutrition, physiology, biochemistry, and
statistics are recommended.
We provide a thorough feed-back on all the written assignments mostly in plenum, but also for at least one of the assignments some individual feedback in writing on language as well as content.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Written assignment, 48 hoursDescription of examination: The student will be given two papers and a number of questions that they have to consider in their answer. They will have 48 hours to do the task in which they are allowed to use all papers from the course, their notes, the internet and also to meet and discuss, but each student must make an individual answer and they are not allowed to discuss their written answers or copy writing from other students. The evaluation will consider skills mainly from the strength of the arguments and an overall evaluation of the answer. The final answer must be uploaded within 48 hours.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Internal grading. More assessors.
Criteria for exam assessment
Please see "Learning Outcome"
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 16
- Preparation
- 70
- Exercises
- 52
- Exam Preparation
- 20
- Exam
- 48
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- LLEK10249U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Schedulegroup
-
A
- Capacity
- No restrictions.
- Studyboard
- Study Board of Food, Human Nutrition and Sports
Contracting department
- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinators
- Mette Frahm Olsen (3-7068724371687b76316e7831676e)
- Henrik Friis (3-6b69754371687b76316e7831676e)
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