PUBH 6035 (PUBH6035)

ThisDiscussionwillfacilitate yourunderstandingabouthowtominimizebiasinstudies,aswellas how to assess potential confounders and effect modifiers. Before you participate in thisDiscussion,completethefollowingtasks: • Readtheassignedchaptersofthetextbook. • WatchthevirtuallabprovidedintheLearningResources. • ReviewthechapterquestionsforChapters10,11,13,and14,whicharedesignedtohelpyoupracticeandassessyourunderstandingoftheconcepts presentedinthechapter. • Completethefollowingassignedch...

1. Question: A study that compares the prevalence of high blood pressure among current Massa chusetts Turnpike toll booth collectors with the current prevalence of high blood pressure of current Turnpike office workers. What type of study is this? 2. Question: A strength of BOTH cross-sectional and an ecological studies is: 3. Question: The Health Professionals Cohort Study began in 2005 in order to evaluate a series of hypotheses about men’s health relating nutritional factors to the incide...

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...

PubH6035Epidemiology: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...

PUBH 6035 Module 2 Article MMR - Assignment

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 ...

DiscussionTips Part of what makes a discussion a discussion and not a lecture is the back and forth, indepth, animated engagement of at least two people. If you start discussing a topic andyour peers are not engaging in it, consider what you can do to get the conversationgoing. Include something that might elicit further thoughts and different opinions amongyourpeers.Rememberthatdiscussionsupportsadiscovery-basedlearningexperiencethat facilitates a deeper understanding of content from multipl...

PUBH 6035 Module 1 Assignment; Professional Learning Journal

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...