units
MRU0005
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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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Faculty
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Coordinator(s)
Offered
Alfred Hospital
Baker
Burnet
Monash Medical Centre
Epidemiology is the study of the incidence, distribution and possible control of infectious and chronic diseases as they affect groups of people. This detailed field may include disease and injury evaluation and surveillance, and infectious and chronic diseases and their prevention. This unit is 100% research with a view to producing a thesis.
Thesis assessed by two external examiners.