Fundamentals of Public Health Epidemiology ((3 Units))

Catalog description

This course introduces principles, methods, and application of epidemiology. The course covers the history of epidemiology, concepts of disease causation and prevention, measures of disease frequency and excessive risk, epidemiologic study designs, causal inference, and epidemiological methods to identify and estimate public health problems and to work out effective solutions for these problems. (Formerly 8200:715)