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Overview

This topic introduces students to the core concepts for scientifically examining relationships between nutrition and disease. Classic nutritional epidemiology studies will be reviewed in addition to providing students with an opportunity to gain the skills required to search and source epidemiological studies of relevance to nutrition. Students will be introduced … For more content click the Read More button below.

Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce students to the core concepts of nutritional epidemiology
  • Introduce students to a broad variety of studies in nutritional epidemiology
  • Provide a framework for determining the quality of studies in nutritional epidemiology and
  • Encourage and foster independent learning skills

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Outline methods for measurement of dietary intake and assessment of nutritional status of groups and populations
2.
Appraise key study designs utilised in nutritional epidemiology including ethical considerations
3.
Identify the fundamental concepts of biostatistics commonly reports in reports of nutritional epidemiology

Requisites information

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