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May 03, 2024
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HLTH 6300 - Epidemiology in Health Administration
Rational basis for setting priorities and allocating scarce health care resources, including use of methodologically sound health statistics; understanding of natural history, classification, and prevention levels of disease; measurement of morbidity and mortality; causal inference; appropriate sources of health care data; and epidemiological principles.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Accurately use epidemiological data sources, quantitative techniques, and data interpretation.
- Apply epidemiological methods to improve and assure quality of care and to propose organizational solutions.
- Communicate epidemiological information and research results to various stakeholders with attention to ethical, political, scientific, economic, and organizational issues.
- Demonstrate understanding of the application of research process and of epidemiological concepts/principles to population health management.
- Describe leadership function with multidisciplinary and diverse groups in problem solving to meet social and organizational goals to assure population health and organizational quality and success.
- Describe the basic concepts and principles that are the basis of epidemiological practice/analysis and their applications in health planning and in major functions of the health care leaders.
- Identify agencies, both governmental and voluntary, which serve as ready resources for disease prevention and control.
- Identify appropriate epidemiological data sources, quantitative techniques, and data interpretation for program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Identify the characteristics and objectives of disease investigation, surveillance, and screening process.
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