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OSH 220
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Title: | Introduction to Epidemiology |
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Long Title: | Introduction to Epidemiology |
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Course Description: | Introduces the principles of epidemiology and how they pertain to injury prevention. Stresses the collection of data, principles of injury prevention, and data evaluation. A beginning level class for students or professionals needing to learn how to collect and evaluate injury data. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Course Notes: | Entered new course 2/1/08 s@ |
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Origin Notes: | CMC |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Outline and define the history of epidemiology
II. identify methods of investigations
III. identify techniques for injury surveillance and data collection
IV. identify and define injury prevention techniques
V. list and identify principles of the valuation
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. history of epidemiology
A. the disease model
B. case studies
II. epidemiological investigations
A. Observational
B. Experimental
C. everyday uses of epidemiology
III. injury surveillance
A. data collection and uses
B. data quality issues
IV. injury prevention techniques
A. engineering
B. environmental
C. enforcement
V. principles of evaluation
A. surveys
B. statistics
C. proxy measures
D. pre-Post analysis
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