NewsActivity: Etiological epidemiology

The weight of the economic crisis and the new scenarios introduced by globalization will waver many certainties, including the sustainability of welfare and, in particular, of the National Health Service. The latest Osservasalute report provides a careful and accurate analysis of the situation in Italy (...)

Asbestos is not a problem of the past. There are more than 1600 new cases of mesothelioma occurring every year in Italy, and it is estimated that asbestos cancers are at least as numerous. An open-to-public conference is pointing to an ongoing topic (...)

The course, scheduled to take place in Turin on June 13 and 14, is intended to provide an overview of the Bayesian methodology applied to biomedical data (...)

A national and European initiative, aimed at studying mesothelioma, through investment in pre-clinical research to identify the causes of the disease and identify new drugs and new therapies, is starting (...)

The exhibition path set up in Turin, from May 10 to June 9, allows the visitor to know and deepen the different aspects of a natural as well as dangerous natural material (...)

Adriano Giacomin, founder and director of the Cancer registry of the province of Biella, has died. We are deeply saddened by the loss of a colleague selfless and competent, and a friend always ready to instill confidence and enthusiasm (...)

This year, the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology pre-course week will be dedicated to the environmental epidemiology, articulating its educational offer on two important topics: Exposome and GIS (...)

The book "40 Years of Health in Turin. Ideas for reading needs and the results of policies", by Giuseppe Costa, Morena Stroscia, Nicolás Zengarini and Moreno Demaria, has just been published. The book can be downloaded for free from the Epidemiology & Prevention website (...)

On March 28, the conference "The importance of birth cohort studies: epidemiology, public health and citizens' engagement", organized by the Behavioral Science Reference Center and the Mental Health Institute of Health and the Department Epidemiology of the Regional Health Service - ASL ROMA 1, will be held in Rome (...)

It is still possible to apply to the XXX edition of the summer courses organized by the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology that take place as usual in Florence and are turning to university students from all over the world (...)

The IARC Monographs volume on Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides is now available online. The volume includes monographs on diazinon, glyphosate, malathion, parathion and tetrachlorvinphos (...)

Air pollution kills 6.5 million people every year. A new World Health Organization's campaign aims to raise awareness even more about the importance of protecting the quality of air in our cities (...)

The VI Edition of the "A short course on concepts and methods in Causal Inference" will be held at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano - Bicocca, from the 12th to the 14th of December 2016 (...)

Now in its sixth annual edition, the report published by the Italian Association of Medical Oncology and the Italian Cancer Registries provides epidemiological measures and clinical interpretations of interest both for operators and for users of Health (...)

Registration for winter courses in epidemiology organized by the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EpidM) of the VU Medical Center is now open (...)

At the library of the CPO Piemonte - Via Cavour 31, in Turin, the complete and bound collection of Epidemiology & Prevention for the period ranging from 1976 to 2015 is now available (...)

The workshop "Measuring quality of life: some methodological issues" will take place in Turin, November 18th. The meeting is primarily aimed at students, graduate students, researchers, doctors and practitioners interested in the methodological problems of measurement and analysis of quality of life data (...)

92% of the world population lives in areas where air quality levels exceed the threshold values established WHO. The new data are a further, detailed source of information on environmental pollution and the resultant danger to public health (...)

"Association or causation in miasmas and mixtures: Current reflections on Bradford Hill's 1965 contribution to Public Health" is the title of the workshop organized by the Royal Society of Medicine in London, on October 13 to 14, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bradford Hill conference (...)