Public Health / Epidemiology

Catalog description

This course provides instruction regarding the promotion and improvement of public health through organized efforts of interdisciplinary teams that improve the quality of life by prevention of diseases in a community. It will place particular emphasis on eye diseases and/or conditions among high -risk and vulnerable populations. It discusses effects of disease on the health and well-being of society and provides instruction into the benefits of health screenings and standards of care. The course reviews major epidemiological eye studies together with those determinants that contribute to ocular diseases and conditions in aging and poverty. Other topics include those factors that contribute to or worsen the effect of visual impairment such as pharmacological factors or cognitive impairment in the aging population or psychological factors in the young. There will also be in -depth discussions of health care policies.