Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Making Sense of Health Evidence: The Informed Consumer
Cardiff University
This course explored factors that affect the reliability of evidence; provided practical help on how to find the best evidence; increased understanding of health research terminology and provided some simple tools to help judge its reliability.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Fiona Morgan
Lecturer and Systematic Reviewer
Cardiff University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Collaborate to identify and create a shared set of reliable sources of health evidence
- Apply critical thinking skills to a range of case study examples
- Develop an understanding of health research and its terminology
- Assess issues related to risks and benefits of treatments
- Explore how research is carried out
Syllabus
- Why all evidence isn’t good evidence
- How health research is reported in the media
- Bias and conflicts of interest in health research
- Hydration and health - who pays for the research
- Searching for health information
- What counts as good evidence
- Risks and benefits of treatments
- Taking drugs in pregnancy
- Perceptions of health research
- How treatments are evaluated
- The MMR scare in the media
- Estimating and communicating risk
- Different kinds of research
- Smoking and lung cancer - lifestyle choices and risk
Issued on 9th March 2017
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