Syllabus
Building upon the lessons below, learners will also critique assigned articles, participate in discussion boards, and complete assigned application exercises. All weekly assignments are due by Sunday at midnight.
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Week One: Introduction to Epidemiology
Lesson 1: What Is Epidemiology
Lesson 2: Epidemiology and Public Health
Lesson 3: Achievements in Epidemiology
Week Two: Measuring Health and Disease
Lesson 1: Defining Health and Disease
Lesson 2: Using Available Information
Lesson 3: Morbidity and Disability
Week Three: Epidemiology Studies
Lesson 1: Observational Epidemiology
Lesson 2: Experimental Epidemiology
Lesson 3: Potential Errors in Epidemiological Studies
Week Four: Basic Biostatistics Concepts, and Causation in Epidemiology
Lesson 1: Displaying Statistical Information
Lesson 2: Summary Numbers
Lesson 3: Statistical Inference
and
Lesson 1: The Concept of Cause
Lesson 2: Establishing the Cause of a Disease
Week Five: Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases
Lesson 1: Scope of Prevention
Lesson 2: Levels of Prevention
Lesson 3: Screening for Disease
Week Six: Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases
Lesson 1: Burden of Communicable Diseases
Lesson 2: Chain of Infection
Lesson 3: Investigation and Control of Epidemics
Week Seven: Clinical Epidemiology, and Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Lesson 1: Normality and Abnormality
Lesson 2: Effectiveness of Treatment
and
Lesson 1: Environment and Health
Lesson 2: Exposure and Dose
Lesson 3: Assessing Risk
Epidemiology Week Eight: Health Policy and Planning
Lesson 1: Health Policy in Practice
Lesson 2: Health Planning Cycle
* A detailed syllabus will be sent to each participant prior to the start of the course.
