Online Courses Handbook 2003

13121 (v.2) Epidemiology 282

Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11088 (v.2) Epidemiology 184 or any previous version
Introduction to epidemiological study, association and causation, principles of disease identification, reliability and validity, measurement of morbidity and mortality, properties of rates and ratios, age standardisation procedures, descriptive epidemiological surveys, data collection methods, analytical epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials, health surveillance, analysis of epidemiological surveys, inference and causation. Use of personal and main frame computers in data analysis.