743 Epidemiology and Population Health

In this course students expand focus from individual client care to consideration of populations, community, and economic challenges within the changing environment of healthcare. Students learn methods of interpretation of epidemiological literature to support evidence based practice change, program development or policy/regulatory initiatives.  Students learn descriptive and analytic epidemiological methods, to measure disease burden, to apply epidemiological principles to disease causation, to organize epidemiological information, and to measure disease frequencies.