Pubh6035 module 2 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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...

Assignment2:ProblemSet:MeasuresofDiseaseFrequencyQUESTION1 Consider a group of 1,000 newborn infants. 100 infants were born with seriousbirth defects and 20 of these 100 died during the first year of life. 90 of the 900remaininginfantswithoutanybirthdefectsalsodied duringthefirst yearoflife. A) Calculate the prevalence of serious defects in this population at the time ofbirth. •=100/1000=0.1/1,000livebirthsor10%ofthepopulationhad seriousbirthdefects B) Calculatetheoverallcumulativeincide...

1. A cohort study of smoking and bladder cancer was conducted in a small islandpopulation. There were a total of 1000 people on the island. Four hundred weresmokersand600werenot.Fiftyofthesmokersdevelopedbladdercancer.Tenofthenon-smokersdevelopedbladdercancer. • Constructatwobytwotableusingthedatagivenabove.Besuretolabelthecells andmargins. • Whichmeasureofcomparisonwouldyouusetodescribetherelativeeffectofsmoking ontheriskofbladder cancer?. • Whatistheformulaforthismeasureofcomparis...

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