Knowing the increasing importance of chronic diseases in terms of public health, to be able to investigate the distribution, frequency and causes of these diseases, to plan primary-secondary-tertiary prevention approaches and service delivery in the prevention of chronic diseases.

1. Importance of Chronic Diseases 1. Diagnosis in Chronic Diseases (Risk Factors, Screening Tests) 2. Prevention in Chronic Diseases, Country Examples 3. Cancers, Cancer Registry Systems 4. Quality of Life, Criteria (DALY, QALY…) 5. Health for Chronic Diseases Organization 6. Cardiovascular System Diseases 7. Survival Analysis 8. Diabetes 9. Mental Diseases 10. Degenerative Musculoskeletal Diseases 11. Chronic Lung Diseases and Smoking 12. Disability 13. Kidney and Urinary System Diseases Research methods in chronic diseases