Public Health Field Laboratory

Catalog description

The students are divided into multidisciplinary teams in order to carry on a health assessment of a community using relevant information such as: morbidity, specific health problems, political, sociocultural, educational, economical, and environmental factors. Using biostatistics and epidemiological technics the students obtain information that is not available in the community. With this information they design a health program and compare it with the current health programs going on in the community. They identify differences and its rational. Finally, the teams make recommendations.