Chronic Heart Disease

  To gain experience in describing and analyzing the distribution of a health disorder in a population To become familiar with various sources of data for the epidemiologic description of a health disorder To enhance the ability to make sound epidemiologic judgments related to public health problems Examples of sources of data: Morbidity and mortality reports (vital statistics): World Health Organization and international reports; U.S. federal, state, and local annual and periodic reports Current literature on the selected health problem Reports of special surveys