MCHPD PGPH 5103: MATERNAL, CHILD HEALTH & POPULATION DYNAMICS

This course draws from the disciplines of demography, epidemiology, biostatistics, and other social sciences to address the needs of today’s health care planners. The course focuses on the basic methodologies of demographic analysis. The analytical methods covered include the structure of a population, the use of basic fertility and mortality measures, life table analysis and the use of model-life tables, period and cohort analysis of fertility, including determinants of fertility and healthy life expectancy. The course also surveys current knowledge concerning the epidemiology of reproductive outcomes and important exposures that affect reproductive health, such as infertility, miscarriage, infant mortality, HIV infection, and violence.