Reference no: EM133808006
Assignment: Project- Health Problem Data and Distribution
Description
Building on the topic you chose, you will now look for data. Some you can get from Healthy People and some you will need to look up. Your slides should tell the viewer the "story" of your problem. Where is it? Who has it?
This unit is on Epidemiology: "The study of the distribution (WHO/WHERE) and determinants (WHY or ASSOCIATED FACTORS) of diseases and injuries in human populations. Epidemiology is concerned with the frequencies (HOW OFTEN) and types of illnesses and injuries in groups of people (WHO) and with the factors that influence their distribution. One of the five core PH disciplines.".
You will be the epidemiologist evaluate your problem. Where and when is it most predominant? Who is it impacting? You wont be running actual studies to look at disease or problem rates, but you will be using the literature to find out what others discovered. These slides should give us an overview of your problem's distribution. We will do determinants next week since it is such a big topic.
You are the epidemiologist studying your problem:
1. What kind of study did the researchers use?
2. How common is the problem (ie x% of adults, 1 in x children)
3. How is your problem distributed across the population (age, gender, race)?
4. Is it more common geographically?
5. Who does this problem happen to (race)?
6. What numbers do we have to describe this?
Tell us what the data here shows. The reader should see a snapshot of your problem. We should see numbersin these slides and have them labeled so the reader can understand. ie" 10% of adults over 65 have x disease". You may re-state some of the good info from last week if it is valuable.