NewsActivity: Etiological epidemiology

The seminar "Prognostic factors in prostate cancer" held by Andreas Pettersson, Department of Oncology, Karolinska University Hospital, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden, will take place in Turin, December 13 (...)

How can the new media help to promote healthy styles, and thus fight pre-school childhood obesity? This theme is dedicated to the workshop organized under the Piccolipiù Informa project (...)

The seminar "Methods of Causal MediationModeling in Epidemiology", by Jessica Laine and Valéria Troncoso Baltar will take place on December 13th, at the Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine in Turin (...)

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

The four days of traveling training organized under the CCM EpiAmbNet project in collaboration with the Italian Epidemiology Association will be held in Piedmont in November (...)

A series of training sessions will be held in November by the Virtual Health Library of Piedmont and addressed to the staff of Regional Health Professionals. The locations are Turin and Biella (...)

The seminar "The Social, Financial and Psychological Effects of Childhood Cancer on Families, with an Exploration of Questions Related to Health Care Systems and Potential Disparities in Risks or Outcomes" will be held in Turin on Monday, November 13th (...)

The EpiAmbNet Network promotes a conference dedicated to the environment-health topic for a profitable exchange of experiences, researches, epidemiological studies and good practices. The appointment is in Bologna on November 7 and 8 (...)

Meeting in Turin on November 10 to discuss the state of the art and future trajectories in the care of the cancer patient and his family, with particular emphasis on integrated work during the last ten years on mesothelioma (...)

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Cauane Blumenberg, Post-Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, will hold a seminar entitled "Web-based questionnaires in cohort studies: design issues and determinants of item nonresponse" (...)

The Annual Meeting of the Italian Association of Epidemiology is scheduled in Mantua from 25 to 27 October. Sharing research and action experiences, with particular regard to the issues of communication, transparency and citizen engagement, will be at the center of the debate (...)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer publication dedicated to biobanks in use in the field of oncology research whose recommendations are addressed not only to the most developed countries, but also to the low and middle income countries, is online (...)

Presented the latest edition of the Environment Report in Piedmont, an up-to-date regional photograph of the region based on the latest data provided by the Regional Agency for Environmental Protection (...)

The 2017 edition of the Trento Economy Festival has been devoted to health inequalities. Numerous events streamed on the site of the festival: in this regard we would like to point out the possibility to retrieve online, in particular, the interventions of Michael Marmot and Paolo Vineis (...)

The call for abstract of the XLI Congress of the Italian Epidemiology Association will be open until July 24, scheduled to be held in Mantova from 25 to 27 October. In order to ensure that auditors have adequate timing of evaluation, the expiry date can not be extended (...)

Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organization show, highlighting improvements made on collecting data and statistics (...)

The LifeCycle project, which also involves the University of Turin and NINFEA cohort, marks the start of an ambitious initiative: to establish a European network of cohort studies of newborns, translating the results obtained from research in strategic prevention recommendations (...)

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 (...)