On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Critically analyse and evaluate the application of the principles of epidemiology in the context of public health and social action
- Critically analyse, compare and evaluate a range of epidemiologic study designs and their appropriate application to public health practice
- Critically appraise, analyse and evaluate the role of chance, bias and confounding in current literature where epidemiological data are significant
- Assess, quantify and compare the risk of health related outcomes in populations and population subgroups
- Demonstrate critical understanding of alternative evidence based approaches in the planning, delivery and evaluation of existing and new public health interventions
- Determine key principles underpinning population-based prevention of ill health including scientific and ethical considerations for population-based disease screening.
