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Aug 31, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HPH 532 - Chronic Diseases
This course will cover substantive and methodological issues in the epidemiology of chronic diseases, including cancer, and cardiovascular, chronic respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases. Students will be presented with examples of descriptive and analytical epidemiology studies in each of these areas; aspects such as disease registration and its contribution to epidemiology research, estimates of attributable fractions, and preventive strategies will be also addressed. The course will include considerations about causality for chronic diseases, including issues of validity in epidemiology studies as well as integration of evidence across studies and disciplines.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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