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Oral exam questions for public health 2014/2015. 1 st semester

Demography, epidemiology and non-communicable diseases

I/1. Demography in public health, basic demographic indicators. Demographic transition.

Age-sex distribution, crude birth and death rates, fertility, migration. Standardization.

I/2. Special fields of mortality: age-related mortality, gender-specific mortality. Infant

mortality, perinatal mortality, maternal mortality. Life expectancy (at birth), description of

international situation.

I/3. Definition of epidemiology, data sources for epidemiology, measuring health status and

mortality, incidence, prevalence. Descriptive and ecological studies.

I/4. Analytic epidemiology .: cohort studies, absolute, relative and attributable risk; case-

control studies, odds and odds ratios. Experimental studies in epidemiology

I/5. Screening and validation of screening tests; sensitivity, specificity, predictive value.

I/6. Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases

I/7. Epidemiology and prevention of cancer.

I/8. Epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and obesity.

I/9. Epidemiology of musculoskeletal diseases, osteoporosis.

I/10. Epidemiology of pulmonary diseases (COPD)

Social medicine

II/1. Public health: definition and scope, levels of prevention

II/2. Definiton of health, health determinants

II/3. Basics of health promotion.

II/4. The public health importance of smoking

II/5. The public health importance of alcohol consumption

II/6. The public health aspects of illegal drugs

II/7. Maternal, neonatal, child and youth health, school health care

II/8. Structure and financing of health care systems, health care and public health apparatus in

Hungary

II/9. The basics of quality assurance in the health care system

II/10. Major achievements in the history of public health

II/11. Epidemiology of mental disorders. Suicide.