Epidemiology - BCA801
Epidemiology involves a cycle of asking questions about the health and disease status of individuals and populations, proposing methods to investigate problems identified, making suggestions as to their causes and then evaluating solutions designed to address the situation. The emphasis in this unit is on the application of epidemiology to the health of populations or communities. This unit covers historical developments in epidemiology; sources of data on mortality and morbidity; disease rates and standardisation; prevalence and incidence; life expectancy; linking exposure and disease (eg. relative risk, attributable risk); main types of study designs – case series, ecological studies, cross-sectional surveys, case-control studies, cohort or follow-up studies, randomised controlled trials; sources of error (chance, bias, confounding); association and causality; evaluating published papers; epidemics and epidemic investigation; surveillance; prevention; screening.
Because of the multi-institutional nature of the BCA units, there is an early cut-off for enrolment in this unit. These dates are:
Session 1: 20 February 2017
Session 2: 24 July 2017
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | S1 External - Session 1, External (On-campus dates: None) S2 External - Session 2, External (On-campus dates: None) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Professor Gillian Heller |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to MBioStat or PGDipBioStat or PGCertBioStat or GradDipBioStat or GradCertBioStat or MActPrac |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Statistics Faculty of Science and Engineering |
Course structures, including unit offerings, are subject to change.
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