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:
- explain the purposes of descriptive and analytical epidemiology;
- explain the strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiological study designs;
- critically appraise epidemiological papers from the epidemiological literature;
- solve problems relating to the use of the principal epidemiological concepts, parameters and study designs;
- 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
