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1. PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND PREVENTION OF DISEASES
HOW TO PROMOTE HEALTH
HOW THE DISEASES ARE PREVENTED
Primary prevention
Methodology of primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Methodology of secondary prevention (screening)
Tertiary prevention
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OF PREVENTION
Individual protection
Disease control
The elimination of diseases
The eradication of diseases

2. ELEMENTS OF DEMOGRAPHY AND HEALTH STATISTICS
The state of the population. The census
The pyramid of the ages
The movement of the population, the registry registers and the mandatory notifications
Other sources of health data
The ad hoc surveys
Frequency measurements
The association or risk measures
Meaning of some demographic and health indicators
Birth rate
Fertility rate
Average life or life expectancy
Old age index
Mortality rates, rough rates, age-specific, rate standardization
Infant mortality, neonatal and perinatal mortality
Morbidity rates: incidence and prevalence of diseases
lethality

3. ELEMENTS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Descriptive or ecological epidemiology
Time variations: epidemics, pandemics
Epidemics and pandemics
Spatial differences
Personal variables
Analytical epidemiology
Prevalence or transversal studies
Cohort or longitudinal or prospective studies
Case-control or retrospective studies
Experimental or intervention epidemiology

4. PRINCIPLES OF EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHRONICODEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND OTHER NON-INFECTIVE EVENTS
ETIOLOGY OF CHRONIC-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND OTHER NON-INFECTIVE EVENTS
CAUSES AND CAUSAL FACTORS
Biological, chemical, physical causes
Causal factors for chronic-degenerative diseases
Risk factors
Causes and sociogenic risk factors
Protective factors
Monocausal diseases
Pluricous and multifactorial diseases
Methods of demonstration in the population
5. PRINCIPLES OF PREVENTION OF CHRONICODEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND OTHER NON-INFECTIVE EVENTS
PRIMARY PREVENTION
Quantification of effects
Strategies
Methodologies
Eugenics
Enhancement of the body's defenses
Modification of behaviors for a healthy lifestyle
Interventions in living and working environments
SECONDARY PREVENTION
Mass screening
Screening in at-risk groups
TERTIARY PREVENTION

6. EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTION OF CHRONICODEGENERATIVE AND DISMETABOLIC DISEASES OF MAJOR SOCIAL INTEREST
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Atherosclerosis, arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease
Ischemic heart disease
Frequency and distribution of mortality and morbidity
Risk factors for ischemic heart disease
The prevention of ischemic heart disease
Brain stroke
DIABETES
CHRONIC OSTRUCTIVE BRONCOPEUMOPATHIES
Causal factors
Tobacco smoke
Air pollution
Occupational factors
Socio-economic conditions
Prevention
MALIGNIUM SUSCEPTIBLE PREVENTION TUMORS
Epidemiology of malignant tumors
Carcinogens
Protectors agents from cancer
Lifestyle, environment and carcinogens
Natural history of cancer
Cancer prevention
Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
The "European Code Against Cancer"
Lung cancer
Stomach cancer
Colorectal cancer
Primitive liver cancer
Breast cancer
Cancer of the uterus
Cancer of the uterine cervix
Cancer of the body of the uterus
Skin cancer