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Unit of Study PBHL2001 - Epidemiology (2022)

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Unit description

Introduces the science of population health and disease. Students will study the principles, methods and application of epidemiology in the identification, control and prevention of disease in the community.

Unit content

  • General principles in epidemiology
  • Measuring health
  • Descriptive epidemiology
  • Association and causality
  • Analytic epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology and health policy
  • Screening and prevention of chronic disease
  • Communicable disease and epidemics
  • Determinants of health

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Location Domestic International
Online
Session2
Session2

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate competence in calculations associated with measurement in epidemiology

identify and explain appropriate methodologies in the attribution of association and causation

evaluate the environmental, social, and cultural determinants of health in the Australian context

source and present scientific literature related to common questions on population health and health policy

relate the natural history of disease to models for disease screening and prevention.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • This textbook will be supplied by the Unit Assessor as a PDF: Bonita, R, Beaglehole, R & Kjellstrom, T, 2006, Basic Epidemiology, 2nd edn, World Health Organisation, Geneva. ISBN: 9789241547079.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.