Epidemiology – the study of the frequency, distribution, cause, and control of diseases in populations – forms the basis of all health-related studies. It provides the background for interventions to reduce the transmission of infectious diseases, reduce the number of healthcare-associated infections and protect the patients, healthcare professionals, and community.
Participants 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, and prevalence.
- Calculate and interpret mean, median, mode, ranges, variance, standard deviation, and confidence interval.
- Prepare and apply tables, graphs, and charts
- Describe the processes, uses, and evaluation of public health & infection prevention surveillance.
- Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation.
- The epidemiologic approach, descriptive epidemiology, analytic epidemiology.
- Chain of infection, epidemic disease occurrence
- Types of Variables
- Methods for Summarizing Data
- Measures of Risk
- Displaying Public Health and infection control Data (Tables and Graphs)
- Identifying or Collecting Data for Surveillance, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data
- Examples of Surveillance
- Investigating an Outbreak
Learning options range from completely classroom-based courses to interactive online live programs.
Courses could be tailored to fit the needs and schedules of group participants.
- Infection preventionist
- Public health officials
- Certified public health educators
- All health professionals responsible for disease surveillance or investigation
- Quality Managers
- Nurses, physicians
- Allied Health Professionals with experience in statistics and epidemiology