28th Annual Occupational Safety and Health
Winter Institute
Applications of Occupational
Epidemiology
August 9-11, 2006
Marriott, Marco Island, Florida
TECH EXAM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 at 11:30 AM.
PLEASE MAKE TRAVEL PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
Put your data collection
to use to add value to your health and safety programs! This
2 1/2 day course prepares students to evaluate the relationships between
exposure to workplace contaminants and workers' health. The course
reviews the main concepts of epidemiology (i.e. surveillance) as they
apply to occupational health. The course will help the students
improve their understanding of health and disease and to apply this
knowledge to better control and prevent health problems in the workplace
and promote positive work practices.
Course
Director
Sherry
R. Rigouard, MPH,
North Carolina Department
of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC
Objectives
- Describe the systematic collection, analysis
and interpretation of health data;
- Review investigation of acute or long-term
health problems;
- Discuss evaluation of epidemiologic data
from others;
- Describe scope and methods, study design;
data collection; casual inference; and the
role of statistics; and
- Discuss exposure assessment and measurement
of disease risk.
Content
Scope and methods; measurement
of disease risk; exposure assessment; study
design; data collection; casual inference; and
the role of statistics.
Credit
- This course is approved as 1 Elective
Credit for all Tech Programs
- 2.5 ABIH (Category 4)
- 1.5 BCSP
- 1.25 CEUs
Meeting Times
Course begins Wednesday, August 9 at 1:00 pm
and ends Friday, August 11 at 11:00 am.
Tuition
and Registration
Please
review our Registration
Policies.
Tuition
for this course
is $815, $915
after Jan. 18 .
To
register online, go to the
Winter
Institute Registration Form. You may also submit
your registration via email;
please be sure to include the course title and
date.
For
further information on this course, contact the NC ERC
office at osherc@unc.edu,
or call us at 919-962-2101, toll free at 888-235-3320.
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