| Course ID: | EPID 7010. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Epidemiology I |
Course
Description: | Introduction of principles and methods of epidemiology,
emphasizing study design. Measures of morbidity and mortality,
data sources, observational and experimental designs, data
interpretation, quantitative methods to determine risk
associations, controlling for confounding factors, and
applications of epidemiology will be covered. Community health,
environmental epidemiology, infectious, noninfectious and chronic
disease epidemiology are considered. |
| Oasis Title: | Introduction to Epidemiology I |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in EPID 7010E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This core course for Master of Public Health students introduces
epidemiology, with emphasis on design of epidemiological studies.
The successful student should be able to calculate and apply
common epidemiologic measures of disease frequency, describe and
apply epidemiologic models to specific diseases, identify sources
of data, and discuss the advantages and limitations of such data
for the study of chronic and infectious diseases, understand
what is meant by reliability, validity, representativeness,
generalizability, and confounding, define and discuss
sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of screening
tests, discuss the strengths and limitations of case-control,
cross-sectional, and cohort study designs, and identify major
sources of bias and describe methods for bias reduction. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. The history and scope of epidemiology
2. Applications of epidemiology
3. Measures of morbidity and mortality
4. Descriptive epidemiology: person, place and time
5. Data sources
6. Study design: ecological, cross-sectional, case-control
and cohort designs.
7. Measures of effect
8. Evaluation of association
9. Data interpretation issues: bias and confounding
10. Screening for disease in the community
11. Epidemiology of infectious diseases
12. Epidemiological aspects of work and the environment
13. Genetic epidemiology
14. Psychological, behavioral, and social epidemiology |
| Honor Code Reference: | Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Cases of suspected
dishonesty will be handled according to the University’s policy
and procedures as detailed at www.uga.edu/ovpi. |