PUBH 210 Epidemiology
Epidemiology introduces students to the principles and methods public health practitioners employ to determine transmission, distribution, occurrence, and detection of communicable and non-communicable diseases and injury within a population. Epidemiology provides evidence-based data which may point to an association between exposure and development of a disease, leading researchers to further investigate a cause-and-effect relationship through laboratory experiments (i.e. tobacco use and lung cancer). Public policy measures (i.e. smoking tobacco ban) and control of diseases (i.e. SARS) benefit from epidemiologic measures by providing population and individual risk estimates. Course content will include guest lecturers who employ epidemiologic principles in their public health work. Case studies of disease outbreaks will be highlighted (i.e. food-borne illness outbreak) to allow students to practice the methods used by epidemiologists.
Prerequisite
ENGL 121 and
MATH 070 or higher or appropriate score on mathematics placement test
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly