COURSE DETAIL
CPH 633 Epidemiology Survey
Credit hours: 3
Cluster: Diverse and Vulnerable Populations
Course Level: graduate
Institution:Oregon Health & Science University
Pre-requisites: None
Course Description: This course is designed to introduce graduate students in the Oregon MPH Program to basic concepts and issues in epidemiology. Epidemiology is the fundamental science used by public health professionals to identify, prevent and control health problems in communities. Specifically, epidemiologic methodology is used to investigate and detect how health-related states or events (e.g. disease, unhealthy exposures, etc.) are distributed in populations and what factors or characteristics (“determinants”) influence or determine these distributions. In addition, epidemiology is used to apply study findings to the prevention and control of health problems within populations. This course will begin with a review of basic biostatistics and then will introduce the concepts, principles and methods of epidemiology within relevant sociocultural contexts. We will also learn how to apply epidemiologic methods to answer questions about the distribution of disease, death, disability and risk exposures in populations, as well as those relating to causal relationships between exposures and health outcomes.
Method of Instruction: Online, Sakai
Campus visits required: None
Course Contact: Shauna Hoffman
email: hoffmash@ohsu.edu
Tuition: $675/credit
Other considerations: This course is available to both PhD & DNP students.
Available Seats by Semester for this course:
SUMMER 2010
Section: 1472
Instructor:Maria Sistrom, RN, MSN, P
Seats:2
Credits: 3
FALL 2010
Section:
Instructor:Deb Messecar
Seats:2
Credits: 3