Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course will serve as an introduction to epidemiology as a basic science for public health and clinical medicine. Epidemiological principles and methods are presented with emphasis on the health status and health needs of a population, on levels of prevention, on susceptibility, communicability, and modes of transmission, and on promotion of health using various strategies. Statistical measures are applied to describe the incidence and prevalence of disease, fertility rates, morbidity and mortality rates, heatlh beliefs and behaviors, socioeconomic, ethnic and racial disparities, causality of disease and disability, and risk factors for the purpose of evidence-based decision making in public health. (Note: This course is not open to students who have taken BSC 435 as undergraduates at Le Moyne College.).