8703 (v.7) Epidemiology 382

Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly

Laboratory:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

303091 (v.3) Epidemiology 186 or any previous version

Syllabus:

Introduction to epidemiological research designs, principles of disease identification, measurements of morbidity and mortality, reliability and validity, properties of rates and ratios, age standardisation procedures. A review of descriptive and analytical epidemiological studies, inference and causation. An overview of descriptive statistics, probability distributions, concepts of hypothesis testing, estimation and confidence intervals. Use of SPSS statistical software to create, edit and analyse research data.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

061311 Epidemiology

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External