NURS 702 - Epidemiology (3)  This course provides the
opportunity to explore the causes of health and disease through
systematic and rigorous identification of patterns in
populations, formulating causal hypotheses and testing those
hypotheses by making group comparisons. Epidemiology is the
basic science of public health, and as such, provides the
scientific underpinnings for understanding disease patterns so
that effective interventions can be proposed, implemented and
evaluated.