PHSP 501

Public Health Epidemiology

Units: 1.5

An applied approach grounded in population-based data. Focuses on the distributions and determinants of health, disease, disability and mortality. Topics include: characteristics and dynamics of health and disease in human populations, including epidemiological strategies in examining the natural history of disease and the impact of disease on the population; population health assessment, surveillance and emerging social epidemiological models that attend to complex models of causation.

Graduate course in the Public Health and Social Policy program offered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.