NewsYear: 2017Activity: Etiological epidemiology

The didactic materials of the training meeting promoted by Piedmontese registries of nasosinusal tumors and mesotheliomas are available online.

January 19, Debbie Lawlor will hold in Turin the seminar "Mendelian randomization: opportunities and challenges of using genetic variants to improve causal inference".

The report "Italy for health equity" made in collaboration between the National Institute for the health promotion of migrant populations and the fight against diseases of poverty, AGENAS, ISS, AIFA, has been presented in Rome (...)

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has launched the electronic version of Cancer Incidence Volume XI in Five Continents, the publication belonging to the series of monographs becoming the reference source on the international impact of cancer (...)

The European Environment Agency's 2017 report on air quality confirms that thin particles continue to be the cause of premature deaths of more than 400,000 citizens every year (...)

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 (...)