Introduction to Epidemiology

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours. Introduction to concepts of epidemiology including evaluating public health problems in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place; critiquing epidemiologic studies; identifying and accessing key sources of data for epidemiologic assessment; using epidemiologic methods and calculating basic epidemiology measures for operational purposes; and communicating basic principles of epidemiology such as definitions of populations, sources of bias, causation for morbidity and mortality, risk and protective factors, and basics of study design. Letter grading.