PUBH 8035 (PUBH8035)

As a public health professional, you may be given data and be asked to calculate and interpret basic measures of disease frequency such as incidence and prevalence statistics. This Discussion will give you the opportunity to work through these calculations and gain experience and understanding of these key measures of disease frequency. Note that the discussions in Modules 2, 3, and 5 of this course are different than traditional Discussions in which you may have participated. Consider these d...

PUBH 8035 Module 2 Assignment 2; Problem Set - Measures of Disease Frequency

PubH8035Epidemiology:UncoveringtheScienceofPublicHealth–Winter2020 Module2Assignment:DescriptiveEpidemiologyCaseStudy(50points) Tocompletetheassignment,accessthefollowingresource: Howlader N, Noone AM, Krapcho M, Miller D, Brest A, Yu M, Ruhl J, Tatalovich Z,MariottoA,LewisDR,ChenHS,FeuerEJ,CroninKA(eds).SEERCancerStatisticsReview,1975-2017,NationalCancerInstitute.Bethesda, MD, Findthelinklabeled“BrowsetheTablesandFigures”andclickonit.Youshouldnowbeatawebpagetitled, “Browse th...

1. Question: Epidemiology involves studying infectious communicable disease, not events like injury, obesity, mental health disorders, and seat belt use. 2. Question: The Framing ham study was a: 3. Question: Epidemiology includes the study of: 4. Question: The definition of epidemiology involves all of the following EXCEPT 5. Question: Who evaluated the Bills of Mortality? 6. Question: Who helped to establish the germ theory of disease? 7. Question: Who showed that poor diet could result ...