- Define key terms in epidemiology, community health, and population-based research.
- Compare study designs used for obtaining population health information from surveillance, observation, community, and control trial-based research.
- Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics.
- Apply commonly used measures of health risk.
- Examine current ethical/legal issues in epidemiology.
- Identify important sources of epidemiological data.
- Evaluate a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place.
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