Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Week 2 - Essential concepts in epidemiology and environmental health

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this lesson, student will be able to:

  1. Distinguish between population focus (vs. clinical approach) in epidemiology
  2. Understand core tasks and activities of epidemiology: research, evaluation, public health surveillance and policy development
  3. Describe the historical development of epidemiology
  4. Understand the following concepts: epidemiological (demographic) transition, multilevel intervention, exposome
  5. Describe environmental epidemiology