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PH 380: Epidemiology

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Reviewed:: May 22, 2024 by Health Sciences

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Overview:

This is an online course that features curated readings, videos, and original assignments discussing the history and evolution of epidemiology as well as all key features.

Type of Material:

The material is comprised of a collection of written material with videos with formative assessments.

Recommended Uses:

This material can be used to teach the course, as independent learning, assigned as homework or worked on as a group.
For use in addition to an undergraduate Pathophysiology class, or encourage student thinking of the master's in public health track to work through this class as a adjunct to their curriculum
Good for in-class, individual, lecture

Technical Requirements:

This is an asynchronous online format requiring a computer, internet access, and web browser.

Identify Major Learning Goals:

The objectives for the course are:

Recognize and understand the history and evolution of the Epidemiology field;
Understand the Social Determinants of Health that disproportionately affects disease contraction, progression, and cure differently among different communities;
Describe key features and applications of descriptive and analytic epidemiology;
Understand 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;
Understand the contexts of qualitative research in Epidemiology, and the qualitative methods used for epidemiological research;
Describe the processes, uses, and evaluation of public health surveillance;
Describe the steps of an outbreak investigation;
Describe the neo-evolving aspects of Social Epidemiology.

Target Student Population:

This will target students in college pursuing a higher degree.
This content is ideal for nurses pursuing a post licensure degree, social work students, and students in population health.
College Upper Division

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

Access to a web browser with video and sound. Basic understanding of pathophysiology would be helpful in understanding all content.
Prerequisite knowledge in population health is preferable.

Content Quality

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Strengths:

The content is clear, appropriate, useful, valid, accurate, and realiable. It is based on CDC's epidemiology principles.
The OER is complete for the purpose of the book.
The OER definitely coverd core curriculum of epidemiology.
The OER uses many different teaching modalities, testing, writing, Ted talks, PowerPoint, reading of current literature, and EBP.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The objectives were all addressed at the beginning of each individual modules, and the class was engaging.
The CDC has an online epidemiology course, which this book follows. This book supplements the CDC course.
This book could be used to supplement another text or as a stand-alone text.
Each module is clear.
It appeals to learners with video, written text, and online work.
There is a learning assessment at the end of each module.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

Information is presented in a variety of methods as mentioned above.
The material wast well organized and easy to navigate.
It is written without too much jargon. Some professional language is necessary.
All links were in working order.

Concerns:

The only concern was cosmetic with the title of modules using consistent capitalization - also a spelling error in one of the pdfs - equity instead of eqity.

Other Issues and Comments:

This is an excellent resource for students in epidemiology and population health courses.

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