EPIDEM 201
Introduction to Epidemiology
Epidemiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
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EPIDEM 201
- COM HLT 200CProgram Planning, Research, and Evaluation in Community Health Sciences
- COM HLT 212Advanced Social Research Methods in Health
- COM HLT 214Issues in Program Evaluation
- COM HLT 236Bridging Research and Practice in Public Health: Using Implementation Science to Achieve Health Equity
- COM HLT 254Intentional Disasters: War and Refugees
- COM HLT 257Program Planning in Community Disaster Preparedness
- COM HLT 482Practicum: Community Health Sciences
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