Epidemiology & Population Health

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 health promotion, community assessment, and disease prevention in diverse populations using various strategies. Statistical measures are applied to describe the incidence and prevalence of disease, fertility rates, morbidity and mortality rates, health beliefs and behaviors, socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial disparities, the causality of disease and disability, and risk factors for the purpose of evidence-based decision making in advanced practice nursing.