Disease Entities and Epidemiology

Catalog description

Introduction to basic principles and concepts in epidemiology, including sources of public health data and data presentation, descriptive epidemiology, epidemiological measurements used to describe disease occurrence, association and causation, basic experimental and analytic study designs in public health, and examples of applied epidemiological methods in social, behavioral and clinical science. This course will offer an introduction to Epidemiology of diseases with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Community outreach programs, services, disease prevention strategies, research and policies that affect and impact health in the United States will also be reviewed and examined. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Writing, Math