MPH5305 · Epidemiology: Concepts and applications

Overview

This unit will provide you with an introduction to key concepts and applications in epidemiology. Key concepts of epidemiology will be delivered throughout the unit, including; rates, sources of data, descriptive and analytical epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, critical appraisal of literature, screening, prevention, exposure assessment, outbreak investigation, confounding and bias. You are expected to be competent at mathematics to a year 7 level

Areas of study: Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Explain and contextualise the purposes of descriptive and analytical epidemiology
2. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiological study designs
3. Critically analyse epidemiological papers from the medical research and OHS literature
4. Evaluate the adequacy of exposure assessment in epidemiological studies
5. Interpret and communicate the results of epidemiological studies
6. Solve complex problems relating to the use of epidemiological concepts and study designs.

Workload

24 hours per week including directed and self-directed learning (including any asynchronous and synchronous tasks, prescribed activities and independent work).

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.