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Epidemiology: Course outlines

This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills to the learners for using epidemiological concepts in assessing the contributing factors, diagnosing the problems, planning intervention and evaluating the results in the community.

Course Description

This course is designed to provide the knowledge and skills to the learners for using epidemiological concepts in assessing the contributing factors, diagnosing the problems, planning intervention and evaluating the results in the community. In addition the learners will be able to make inferences the impact on population demographics, social and health status in Pakistan. Learners will also be able to correlate Epidemiological research findings to community health nursing practice.

Course Objective

By the end of the course the learners will be able to:

  1. Illustrate the general use of Epidemiology.
  2. Illustrate the use of a model of the natural history of a disease as a base for community intervention
  3. Describe the common epidemiological methods.
  4. Describe the steps of an epidemiological investigation.
  5. Interpret the relevance of epidemiological research findings to community health nursing practice.6.
  6. Discuss the impact of population growth on the socioeconomic and health status in Pakistan.

 

Course Schedule

Unit 1: Introduction of Epidemiology

Unit 2: Concept of Health & Disease

Unit 3: Epidemiological Models

Unit 4: Concept of Prevention

Unit 5: Basic Measurement

Unit 6: Epidemiological transitions in disease patterns

Unit 7: Epidemiological Methods

Unit 8: Surveillance and notification

Unit 9: Screening

Unit 10: Data management and presentation

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