PBH 250 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Course unit(s): 1
Prerequisite(s): PBH 201 Issues in Public Health and MTH 119 Statistical Analysis or PSY 103 Psychological Statistics
This course will cover the basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems, with emphasis on the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation and appropriate summaries and displays of data. Topics include study design, measures of disease frequency and association, bias, confounding and effect modification, causality, screening and disease surveillance.