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Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study
Credits: 3 - Applied Studies
Prerequisite: Professor approval and HADM 336.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
HADM 379 has a Challenge for Credit option.
This introductory course in epidemiology provides an analysis of the epidemiologic approach to problems of health and disease. The basis principles and methods of epidemiology are presented in three sections of this course. The sections are designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of epidemiologic methods and study design and the place of epidemiology in preventive and clinical medicine. This course is designed for students from a wide variety of backgrounds: health services, administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and clinicians.
HADM 379 is structured for independent study with interactive tutoring. The course comprises the following eleven units:
Unit 1: Introduction to Epidemiology and Dynamics of Disease Transmission
Unit 2: Measuring Disease Occurrence
Unit 3: Diagnostic Test Validity and Reliability
Unit 4:The Natural History of Disease
Unit 5: Assessing the Efficacy of Preventive and Therapeutic Measures
Unit 6: Cohort, Case-control, and Cross-sectional Studies
Unit 7: The Epidemiological Approach to Risk
Unit 8: The Epidemiological Approach to Causation
Unit 9: Evaluation of Health Services
Unit 10: Evaluation of Screening Programs
Unit 11: Epidemiology: Public Policy, Ethical and Professional Issues
To receive credit for HADM 379, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent), and a mark of at least 50 percent on each examination.
Exercise 1 | Exercise 2 | Mid-term Exam | Exercise 3 | Final Exam | Total |
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10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Gordis, L. (2004). Epidemiology (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.
Last, J. M. (Ed.). (2001). A dictionary of epidemiology (4th ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
The course materials also include a study guide, student manual and a reading file.