Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice

This course [book] on Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a self-study course. Continuing Education for this course is no longer available.

Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to correctly:

• Describe key features and applications of descriptive and analytic epidemiology.
• Calculate and interpret ratios, proportions, incidence rates, mortality rates, prevalence, and years of potential life lost.
• Calculate and interpret mean, median, mode, ranges, variance, standard deviation, and confidence interval.
• Prepare and apply tables, graphs, and charts such as arithmetic-scale line, scatter diagram, pie chart, and box plot.
• Describe the processes, uses, and evaluation of public health surveillance.
• Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation.