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Apr 29, 2024
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PAS 521 - Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
This course provides students with an overview of the basic concepts of epidemiology, public health, diet and nutrition and preventative medicine. Epidemiological concepts include distribution, prevalence, causation, mode of transmission, dissemination, control, and preventive countermeasures of infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as environmental, occupational, behavioral, and chronic conditions. PA students will be introduced to research methodologies related to the study of disease and will investigate epidemiological trends across a variety of cultures, nationally and globally. Attention will be paid to professional responsibility, confidentiality, informed patient consent, and issues of patient welfare.
2 Credits.
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