Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This course provides an overview of pregnancy and perinatal outcomes from an epidemiological perspective, including their burden, risk factors and consequences, and methodological challenges for their study at the population level.
Learning Objectives: This course will help students:
1) Identify key physiological aspects of intrauterine development, birth, and the neonatal period.
2) Understand the role of common risk factors (e.g. parental age, socioeconomic status, smoking, obesity) for adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes.
3) Become familiar with the definition, burden, causes, and consequences of common adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes including diabetic and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, miscarriage, fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, stillbirth and infant mortality, birth defects, and maternal mortality.
4) Recognize the methodological approaches and challenges specific to the study of pregnancy and perinatal outcomes at the population level.
