Week 3: Descriptive and Analytic Methods, Surveillance
Section outline
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Learning Objectives:
- Understand the distinction between descriptive and analytic methods, and their utility in surveillance and outbreak investigations.
- Know how to interpret data for measures of association and common statistical tests.
- Recognize the applications and limitations of current public health surveillance practices.
- Be familiar with federal public health surveillance system.
- Understand the reciprocal pathways of data exchange through country, state, and federal surveillance efforts.
- Recognize the major components of surveillance data analysis.
- Understand the distinction between descriptive and analytic methods, and their utility in surveillance and outbreak investigations.