Leader: Professor F Cicuttini

Offered

Alfred Hospital First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

An introduction to descriptive and analytical epidemiology, demography, case-control studies, cohort studies, clinical trials, risk and causation, bias, confounding, health program evaluation and measurement theory.

Objectives

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. explain the purposes of descriptive and analytical epidemiology;
2. explain the strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiological study designs;
3. critically appraise epidemiological papers from the epidemiological literature;
4. solve problems relating to the use of the principal epidemiological concepts, parameters and study designs;
5. explain the uses of epidemiology in the practice of public health.

Assessment

Written Assignments 25%
Examination 75%.

Contact hours

2 contact hours per week at Melbourne University

Co-requisites

MPH1031