NURS 8001 - Epidemiology for Health Professionals

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: NURS 8045 for PhD students and NURS 8670 for DNP students.
Description
Epidemiology for Health Professionals is a core course in the Nursing PhD program. The course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of epidemiological methods and their practical applications in the understanding of determinants and distributions of health related events. The course will cover basic principles of epidemiology, including disease control, surveillance, screening, study design, risk estimation, bias and causation. The course will demonstrate the multidisciplinary environment and ecological approach to the understanding of disease etiology and prevention. Additionally, this course will explore the interface between epidemiology and policy development. Web-based learning will be used in this course. L