In order to make a difference in the health and well-being of a population, we must understand the burden of all problems and conditions that affect the population, as well as how well our efforts to mitigate these problems are actually working. This course provides you with some essential skills and tools that will enhance your ability to describe and understand the health of your community. The tools that epidemiologists use are in fact useful for all public health practitioners, including data scientists, program officials, agency leaders, and policymakers. Whether you are deeply enmeshed in your career and looking to augment your skills, or are looking to change career paths into the field of public health, this course will give you some of the practical knowledge and skills that we hope you can apply in your professional endeavors.
Этот курс входит в специализацию ''Специализация Epidemiology in Public Health Practice'
Essential Epidemiologic Tools for Public Health Practice
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Чему вы научитесь
Be conversant in public health history, services, governance, and workforce.
Perform numeric estimates to assess public health problems and evaluate the burden of a condition in a population
Use data visualization as an epidemiological tool to describe risk factors
Apply basic mapping skills and a tool for epidemiologic descion-making
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Английский
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Role of Epidemiology in Public Health
We will start by discussing the definitions of public health and epidemiology and discuss what components of individuals and their lives that we must address in order to optimize their health and well-being. In this section, we will also introduce the hands-on exercise for this course.
Numeric Estimates in Epidemiology
In this module, we will examine the definitions for and sources of the core numeric values we need to describe the health and well-being of a population, which are numerators, the counts of an event or disease, and the denominator, the population from which events are drawn. We will then manipulate those numbers to derive ratios, proportions, and rates, which are core measures used to describe the burden of public health problems.
Depiction of Epidemiologic Data
In this module, we will explore the tool of data visualization, understand basic components of effective visualizations, and walk through practical exercises of identifying strengths and weaknesses of specific visualizations towards meeting their stated goals. You will then have the opportunity to create a data visualization from data regarding risk factors for common public health problems using the global disease-burden database of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Basic Mapping of Epidemiologic Data
Maps and geographic information systems have become a cornerstone in public health and epidemiologic work in all communities. In this module, we will discuss how place matters in public health and how understanding the geographic distribution of a disease or risk factor is an important component of designing appropriate interventions. We will then discuss GIS as a tool for displaying spacial data and conduct a detailed exploration of how spatial data is stored and displayed by GIS software. You will download an open source GIS application known as QGIS, extract both spatial and epidemiologic data from the US Census Bureau, and create a map of your own.
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Лучшие отзывы о курсе ESSENTIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIC TOOLS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE
The questions in the quizzes asked are very standard, just going through the videos won't help. If Mam could teach a bit more extensively or provide some extra study material that would be helpful.
This course was a simple and easy-to-follow introduction to some integral programs that are used by public health practitioners. I highly recommend spending a few hours learning from this course!
Very insightful! Straight to the point and allows you to read along as you hear the course. This is very helpful as sometimes it is difficult to hear. Great content in each section
This course was very informative and easy to navigate. Examples and videos were clear and provided essential information for epidemiologists.
Informative, straightforward information you would already have some comprehension about if you already are a public health major.
Great course outlining the importance of data and the tools we use to best disseminate that data from a public health standpoint.
Difficult to grasp from the start from a lay perspective but found the tutorials easier to comprehend as the course progressed.
This was such an amazing course in helping to understand health and health populations. I highly recommend this course!
As an introductory course I'd like to see some lectures besides the excercises. great material on the slideshows!
Excellent course. I learned a lot about how to use epidemiology tools in Public Health everyday practice.
This was a great course and super helpful in learning more about the importance of epidemiology.
I learnt a lot through this platform. Thank you for making me better equipped in my field.
Amazing learning experience! I totally enjoyed this as an upcoming Public Health Student!
I learned so much from this course. I feel prepared to take on the public health world.
Amazing course! Breaks down essential concepts of public health in a very useful way.
I really enjoyed this Course and like that you could complete this at your own pace.
A great general overview of the basic tools used to evaluate epidemiological data.
Excellent course even for those without any background in public health.
Great course for learning basic principles of epidemiology, thanks!
Excellent teacher, well spoken, clearly presents the materials
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Специализация Epidemiology in Public Health Practice: общие сведения
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