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