Short Course Training in Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Graduate and Undergraduate Public Health Professionals

The University of South Florida has developed short courses of 2 to 3 days in epidemiology and biostatistics geared to public health workers. A key focus is providing skills which will assist local and State public health units to assess their status and measure progress with respect to achieving th...

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Published in:Public health reports (1974) 1994-05, Vol.109 (3), p.434-438
Main Authors: Manuel Bayona, Leaverton, Paul E., Maria Cristina Rangel-Sharpless, P. Douglas Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied statistics
Bachelors degrees
Biological and medical sciences
Biometry
Biostatistics
Curriculum
Disease outbreaks
Education, Continuing
Education, Graduate
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Epidemiology - education
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Florida
Formal training
Medical personnel
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Predisposing factors
Public health
Public Health Administration - education
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Schools, Public Health
Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
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Summary:The University of South Florida has developed short courses of 2 to 3 days in epidemiology and biostatistics geared to public health workers. A key focus is providing skills which will assist local and State public health units to assess their status and measure progress with respect to achieving their explicitly stated health objectives for the year 2000. The courses were developed after the identification of the training needs in health departments and other public health settings. The training objectives were (a) to enhance the biostatistics skills of professionals involved in the analysis of health data; (b) to reinforce basic knowledge of epidemiologic methods and its practical applications in public health settings, including measures of disease frequency and association, epidemic outbreak investigations, and the identification and use of surveillance data; and (c) to demonstrate the application of the risk factor approach to select the interventions needed to reach health objectives for year 2000 and how to evaluate such interventions. A total of 43 students have taken this course series. Professional staff in health departments cannot always enroll in formal training in epidemiology and biostatistics because of time limitations or a lack of a bachelor's degree. However, the need exists. An alternative to such training could be the short course program described in this paper.
ISSN:0033-3549
1468-2877