The next IDEAR early career researcher training course will take place in Turku, Finland, 2021, the exact date will be announced later.
The course content will include the following:
- Introduce common clinical measurements that are conducted in health examination studies (e.g. body composition, physical and cognitive performance, blood pressure),
- Discuss what should be taken into account in planning and data analyses,
- Familiarization with accelerometers, which are used to measure physical activity, sedentariness and sleep,
- Introduce how neighborhood health effects can be examined using register data that can be linked to participants’ home addresses/zip codes.
Target group
Junior members of the IDEAR network, included in the Early Career Training Programme.