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Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
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- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Chinese
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Course Introduction, History of Epidemiology and Epidemiology Research
This module introduces the history and field of epidemiology. - Week 2 - Understanding Measures of Disease Frequency
This module introduces measures of disease frequency. - Week 3 - Study Designs
This module introduces the following study designs: experimental, cohort, case control, cross-sectional, and ecologic. - Week 4 - Measures of Association
This module introduces measures of association and confidence intervals. - Week 5 - Causality
This module introduces causality. - Week 6 - Course Conclusion
This module concludes the course.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Dr. Karin Yeatts
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Dr. Lorraine Alexander
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Distance Learning (North Carolina Institute for Public Health)
Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
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