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The department of epidemiologys student handbook provides essential information on topics ranging from academic ethics to a detailed description of the department and its research areas as well as course requirements for degrees and certificates offered through the department. Disease, defined as a deviation from health, is one such healthrelated event of concern to epidemiologists, so in that regard, epidemiology is often thought of as the study of disease in populations. Epidemiology is the study of health in populations to understand the causes and patterns of health and illness. As the basic method of public health, epidemiology touches many aspects of the health sciences.
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