Postgraduate - UnitDPH6001 - Advanced epidemiology

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Professor M Abramson

Synopsis

Advanced understanding of epidemiology methods used to study chronic diseases. Overview of descriptive and analytical epidemiology of diseases of major public health importance in Australia. Particular methodological issues include assessing causality, bias, confounding, effect modification, exposure assessment, outcome assessment, prevention paradigms and whether epidemiology has reached its limits.

Outcomes

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

Understand and discuss the principles underlying the epidemiological study of diseases;
Appreciate and identify the methodological difficulties inherent in observational epidemiological studies of diseases;
Be able to apply general epidemiological principles to specific diseases;
Understand and use descriptive epidemiological measures to summarize the population impact of specific diseases; and
Appreciate new methodological developments in epidemiology.

Assessment

Two written assignments (50% each)

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Michael Abramson

Workload requirements

2 contact hours per week

Prerequisites

MPH5020 or MPH5040 or MPH5041

Co-requisites

This unit is only available to students enrolled in the Doctor of Public Health