NUT 503
Nutritional Epidemiology
2 Unit(s) (LH 30)
Course Description
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. explain the Principles of Nutritional Epidemiology;
2. describe the methods for nutrition epidemiology research;
3. discuss with qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods/design of research;
4. list the application of Nutritional Epidemiology in the prevention of diseases; and
5. describe the statistical analyses methods.
Course Outline
Principles of Nutritional Epidemiology, Reviews of Assessment methods for Populations and
Individuals. Diets/Disease Relationships, Correction of Measurement Errors in Nutritional Study,
Nutrition Survey & Research Methods in Nutrition, Measures of Association, Inferential Nutritional
Epidemiology & Statistics, Multiple determinants of Diseases, Nutritional Surveillance &
Notification, Evaluation of Diagnostic and Screening Tests-Specificity, Sensitivity, Validity and
Predictive Values, Application of Nutritional Epidemiology to Health care Delivery and Systems
Development.