Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course covers public health topics related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The course explores topics such as: burden of NCDs in populations; the conceptual frameworks for studying chronic disease causation and control; the epidemiology of cardiometabolic diseases as well as the epidemiologic transition in relation to risk factors for the major chronic diseases (e.g. nutrition, obesity, physical exercise, alcohol and tobacco use) as well as upstream factors impacting on diseases such as food policy and the built environment; integrated healthcare services and public health interventions; and, the study designs used to assess associations between exposures and NCDs.