BIO 4437 - Epidemiology

3 Credit Hour(s)

The course is aimed to provide knowledge about the main concepts of epidemiology, ethics in epidemiological research, the epidemiological definitions of association and frequency, the measurements of disease frequency, mortality data, and health impacts, descriptive and analytical studies, surveillance and prevention, outbreak investigations, the aspects of air and water pollution, the risk assessment and precautionary principle the basics of radiation biology and the growing importance of ecological studies and environmental epidemiology in public health.
Prerequisite(s): BIO 3372/BIO L372