Course Descriptions

Nursing

MSN 6616
Epidemiology Health Professions
3 credits

Epidemiology provides the student with an introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics as applied to public health problems.  The course will introduce students to the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation, appropriate summaries, and displays of data, and the use of classical statistical approaches to describe the health of populations.  The distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations will be explore. Epidemiological research using technology and public health informatics will also be introduced.