The Health Informatics concentration will prepare students for a variety of careers within public health, in other health sciences, and in careers outside the health field where quantitative skills are necessary. It will appeal to those students who enjoy mathematics and to whom numerical manipulation comes easily. Students will develop analytical skills valuable for the solution of a wide variety of problems both within and beyond the health sciences. They will learn computer applications related to the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of information. Emphasis will be placed on the fundamentals of the scientific method and its historical development, which is applicable across the whole scientific spectrum. Particular emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of data with a view to inferring causal relationships among given factors (e.g., cigarette smoking) and health outcomes (e.g., lung cancer).
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