Public Health Research: Analysis of Population Health [HS02a]

Detailed information about this course:

Description

Public Health Research: From Epidemiology to Health Promotion

Module: Analysis of Population Health

This module aims to teach methods to assess the health of populations at national and local levels. Students are taught to calculate, apply and interpret population-based measures of mortality, quality of life and disease occurrence. In addition, students learn methods to assess time trends in population health (e.g. APC methods) and to analyse inequalities in health between social groups.

Note: HS02a, HS02b and HS02c will be tested after the HS02c course! If you are taking all three courses, you need to pass all three courses separately.

Objectives

After completing the course, the student is able to:

• quantify population health by using population-based measures of general health, based on life tables and related techniques;
• assess the public health impact of major diseases, by using measures on their prevalence, incidence and impact on population health;
• describe past trends and explore future developments in population health, by using age-period cohort analyses and other techniques;
• describe socio-economic and ethnic differences in population health, and apply statistical approaches to explain these differences.
  

Assessment

Written exam