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PHS-3634: Epidemiologic Concepts of Health and Disease

Description: Designed to give students in the health sciences a basic understanding of the modern concepts regarding health and disease as well as skills in organizing epidemiological data, disease investigation and surveillance. Includes a survey of terms, concepts, and principles pertinent to epidemiology. Lifestyles of populations and the relationships between lifestyles and health status are studied.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: HNFE-3634

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 10

Average GPA: 3.63 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 51.60%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.09%

Corrine W Ruktanonchai202473.8%19.9%3.5%0.9%0.8%1.1%3.634
Rachel A Silverman202170.6%21.4%5.9%0.9%0.5%0.7%3.593
Audrey Ruple202270.4%26.0%3.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.681
Pamela A Ray202060.7%32.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%7.1%3.662

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