311440 (v.1) Epidemiology 286

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
TUITION PATTERNS:	The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	8703 (v.7) Epidemiology 382 or any previous version AND 13121 (v.4) Epidemiology 282 or any previous version AND 303091 (v.3) Epidemiology 186 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):	Admission into 155699 (v.5) Bachelor of Science (Food Science and Technology) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 305717 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Health Promotion), Bachelor of Science (Health and Safety) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 168999 (v.7) Bachelor of Science (Nutrition) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 311344 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Health, Safety and Environment) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 155410 (v.3) Bachelor of Science (Health and Safety) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 155599 (v.7) Bachelor of Science - Health Sciences or any previous version     OR     Admission into 156799 (v.6) Bachelor of Science (Health Promotion) or any previous version     OR     Admission into 305655 (v.4) Bachelor of Science (Health Promotion), Bachelor of Science (Nutrition) or any previous version AND     303168 (v.3) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 180 or any previous version     OR     313390 (v.2) Evidence Informed Health Practice 100 or any previous version     OR     314512 (v.1) Evidence Informed Health Practice 130 or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS:	The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus:	Evolution of epidemiology. Dynamic interaction between agent, host, and environment. Concepts of health and disease. The natural history of disease. Estimating health and disease in populations. Demography. Concepts of risk factors and causes. Validity and reliability of data. Epidemiological study designs, their strengths and limitations, inference and causation, bias and confounding, issues of reliability and validity, properties of rates and ratios, age standardisation procedures and application of epidemiological knowledge, principles and techniques to investigate public health issues.
Field of Education:	061399 Public Health not elsewhere classified
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2014	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2014	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2014	Bentley Campus	Semester 2				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

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