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Summer Institute for Public Health Practice 2008
Epidemiology: Intermediate |
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“I will have more knowledge and confidence when this type of information is required in my job.”
—participant, 2007
Epidemiology: Intermediate builds
on the more experienced participant's understanding of basic
epidemiologic principles. The course is designed for public health nurses, epidemiologists, program managers, emergency preparedness planners, health educators and others. Instruction covers measures of risk,
epidemiologic bias, statistics, and study types along with interactive
discussions and exercises that highlight relevant examples from public
health practice.
Objectives
- Describe two measures of risk.
- Define confounding and identify two other measures of epidemiologic bias.
- Describe three types of study design.
- List 3-5 concepts in intermediate epidemiology that could influence responses to global climate change, new built environments, and communicable disease issues and describe the possible nature of those effects.