PHS 301 INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY

This course explores the basic principles and methods of the epidemiological approach to understanding the distribution and determinants of health and disease and how this knowledge informs public health practice and policy. Students will learn and apply the processes involved in disease surveillance screening programs and outbreak investigations as well as the major epidemiologic study designs through case studies. Basic descriptive and analytic epidemiologic measures will be calculated. 

Credits

4 sh

Prerequisite

PHS 201, PHS 202 and MTH 110 or MTH 220 or STS 212

Offered

Offered fall and spring

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