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

Future Course Number

PHS 3010

Prerequisite

PHS 201, PHS 202 and STS 110 or STS 212

Course Types

Geographic Information Systems Elective

Offered

Offered fall and spring.

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