EPDC 607: Principles of Epidemiology

Definitions: Uses of epidemiology; Disease and health; Disease measurement and significance of indices used; Mortality measurement and significance of indices used; Standardization of rates; Epidemiological methods, descriptive, analytic, experimental; Application of epidemiology to investigation of epidemics and for community diagnosis; Epidemiology of Diseases, Communicable diseases; Non communicable Diseases; Screening; New Epidemiological Concepts, for example, Burden of disease, DALYs, special groups at risk.