Preventive Medicine

Catalog description

Basic concepts of epidemiology and methods for identification of factors influencing health and disease in human populations. Considerations are centered on physical, biological, environmental, psycho-social and cultural factors in relation to infectious and non-infectious diseases; interactions between agent, host, and environmental factors as determinants of health and disease; the application of epidemiological approaches to health services; retrospective and prospective analysis of morbidity and mortality data.