📖 Course Overview
This course is aimed to equip students with skills to analyze public health problems, assess risk, interpret data, and inform prevention and policy. The course provides fundamental knowledge about how diseases and health conditions are distributed and what determines them in populations. The course covers basic terminology, study designs (e.g., cohort and case-control studies), measures of disease occurrence and association, and identifying bias and confounding.
🔑 Key Topics Covered
Understand its role as the basic science of public health
Describe basic terminology and concepts of epidemiology
Learn to calculate and interpret rates and measures of disease occurrence
Identify different types of epidemiological studies and their strengths/weaknesses
Analyze associations between exposures and health outcomes
Use epidemiological principles to investigate outbreaks and understand disease patterns
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