Health Management System for Foundations of Epidemiology

This course equips students with the ability to understand and evaluate theimpact of environmental, biological, social, and behavioral risk factors onhealth and disease through the epidemiology methods. The course useslectures, small group meetings and assignments to acquaint student with:measures of morbidity and mortality; techniques of epidemiology surveillanceincluding disease outbreaks; appropriate settings for use ofcross-sectional, prospective and retrospective study design as methods toexamine disease causation and distribution; calculation of relative risk;sources of bias and variability in studies. Lectures and workshops reinforcestudent facility with statistical methods used in analyzing and interpretingthe medical literature. Small group meetings require students to demonstratethe skills of critical evaluation of epidemiology evidence.

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