1 VAPH 930 - PUBLIC HEALTH Semester - College of Veterinary ...

Be able to identify and give examples of continuous and categorical variables
Be able to describe the general components of a Apopulation health@ program.
Prognosis and Causation:
What you should know:
The concept that causation is an interrelated set of factors.
What are some of the common models to describe causation.
What are the criteria to determine causation.
Be able to recognize some common statistical tests and when they might be used.
What survival analysis is in general terms
What you should be able to do:
Be able to describe when to use a mean or median and to tell if they are used appropriately in an example.
How to calculate and interpret a morbidity or mortality rate.
How to interpret a relative risk and odds ratio and decide whether they are statistically significant or not.
How to interpret a survival curve in an example
What the agent, host, environment triangle means and list some examples for each element.
Be able to describe and identify a clinically or biologically important difference compared to a statistically
significant difference.
AMR and Inspection still to come….
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