50 Overview & Objectives
Overview
Disease and Disorders covers six topics:
- Epidemiology and Public Health
- Noncommunicable Diseases and Disorders
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Cancer
- Communicable (Infectious) Diseases
- Immunity and Immunizations
Objectives
- examine and discuss the role of epidemiology in public health
- recognize, examine and formulate the importance of immunization
- identify the major means of transmission for communicable diseases
- identify and examine immunizations in relationship to immunity
- differentiate the major classifications of communicable and non-communicable diseases