NURS 604 - Epidemiology

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): None This lecture course introduces epidemiology and provides an in-depth study of factors that impact the health of populations. It serves as the foundation for understanding medical research, public health, and preventive medicine. Measures of morbidity and mortality used in epidemiology are examined. Research methods used in descriptive and analytic epidemiology will be described. The application of statistical models to test hypotheses and the documentation of results for epidemiological studies in the community, and the screening of diseases in the community will be explored. Content areas in epidemiology that include infectious diseases, occupational and environmental health, molecular and genetic epidemiology, and psychosocial epidemiology are analyzed. Professional issues in epidemiology will be discussed. (3 clock hours)