EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

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The course is aimed at studying how conditions and diseases are distributed in the population, mainly those triggered by substances or drugs that cause toxicity in the body, so that public health measures can be established to prevent and control them. The course emphasizes the principles, methods, and limitations of t he different types of epidemiological studies that are performed in toxicological studies. Epidemiological data is interpreted, an association or causality between existing diseases or conditions and related variables is analyzed, and ethical and professional aspects are applied in the study of conditions or diseases.