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Course description

PUBH7114 broadens the disciplinary base in quantitative methods to include further demography, and analytical epidemiology, leading in to summary measures of population health and an introduction to the role of health economics; it sets up a core methodoligcal base for priority setting at the population level. Specifically, it covers demographic principles and methods such as life tables, basic measures of fertility and mortality, migration and population growth, epidemiological study design and analysis, evaluation of health intervention programs, and summary measures such as YLLs and DALYs.