PUBH 3106

Exclusion(s): Unavailable to students with credit for PUBH395. This course covers the development and history of epidemiology with its importance to public health. Topics include incidence, prevalence, cohort studies, risk ratios, rates of disease, mortality, morbidity, case control studies and experimental studies. The relevance of study results is discussed along with a determination of the advantages and disadvantages of the varying study designs.