Course unit, curriculum year 2026–2027
PGH.201
Basic Epidemiology, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Course code
PGH.201Language of learning
EnglishAcademic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Tarja KinnunenCoordinating organisation
Health Sciences Studies 100 %
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Social Sciences 100 %
Common learning outcomes
International outlook and global responsibility
Ethics
Content
Introduction to the scope of epidemiology and its basic concepts and methods: measures of occurrence and associations, defining exposures and outcomes, validity of measurements, systematic error, random error, confounding, descriptive and analytic epidemiologic study designs, causality.
Learning outcomes
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Numeric evaluation on a scale of 1-5 or fail.
Participation in teaching
No scheduled teaching
Completion option 2
Independent studies (video-recorded lectures, reading materials, practical exercises, exam)
Independent study
No scheduled teaching
Open University completion options
The course is also available at the Open University