Please see the attached paper along with the grading rubric. This assignment is
Please see the attached paper along with the grading rubric. This assignment is worth 20%
of your overall final grade and is due Week 8
geographic area South Florida
My disease is cholera; it might be interesting to look at the breakout of
cholera in Haiti during the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the current problem
there based on the current conflict.
Purpose
This paper should clearly and comprehensively identify the disease or population health problem
chosen. The problem must be an issue in your geographic area and a concern for the population
you will serve upon graduation with your degree. The purpose of this assignment is to:
Provide learners with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills learned
throughout this course
Directly apply principles and knowledge learned in the course to problem solving of
population health problems in their own geographic areas.
Assignment Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
1. Define key terms in epidemiology, community health, and population-based research.
2. Compare study designs used for obtaining population health information from surveillance,
observation, community, and control trial-based research.
3. Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological
subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures,
reproductive health, and genetics.
4. Apply commonly used measures of health risk.
5. Examine current ethical/legal issues in epidemiology.
6. Identify important sources of epidemiological data.
7. Evaluate a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place.
Requirements
EPIDEMIOLOGY PROJECT PAPER (Worth 20% of Course Grade) 2
Page length: 6-10 pages, excluding title/cover page
APA format 7th edition
Include at least one table to present information somewhere in the paper.
Must include at least 4-5 scholarly resources not older than 5 years
Epidemiology Paper: Descriptive Epidemiology of a Selected Infectious Disease
Please select an infectious disease to explore in detail by using a descriptive epidemiological
approach. Using the APA 7 th edition Style Manual as a reference, the scholarly paper should be
no more than 10 and no less than 6 pages excluding title and reference page
Outline of the Assignment (make sure the paper includes the following)
a) Introduction with a clear presentation of the problem as well as significance and a
scholarly overview of the paper.
b) Describing an infectious disease to explore in detail by using a descriptive
epidemiological approach. Background of the disease including definition, description,
signs and symptoms, and current incidence and/or prevalence statistics current state,
local, and national statistics pertaining to the disease. (Include a table of incidence or
prevalence rates by your geographic county, state, and national statistics.)
c) A review of current surveillance methods and any mandated reporting or methods for
reporting the disease for providers.
d) Identifying various sources of data for the epidemiological description of a health
disorder/infectious disease
e) Identifying host characteristics (age, gender, marital status, race etc.) and environmental
attributes: geographic areas, income, housing, occupation, and education (essentially the
main social determinants of health) as they relate to an infectious disease or health
condition.
f) Conduct descriptive epidemiology analysis of the disease including who is more
frequently affected and characteristics of the population that might help in creating a
prevention plan. Include costs (both financial and social) associated with the disease or
problem.
g) Identifying temporal variation: (secular, cyclic, seasonal, and epidemic) as they relate to
an infectious disease or health condition.
h) Summarizing current hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the observed
distribution of the infectious disease or health condition
i) Review how the disease is diagnosed, current national standards for screening or
prevention, and pick one screening test and review its sensitivity, specificity, positive
predictive value, cost and any current national guidelines for conducting which patients
to conduct this test on.
j) Listing gaps in knowledge about the distribution of an infectious disease or health
condition.
k) Provide a brief plan of how you will address this epidemiological disease in your practice
EPIDEMIOLOGY PROJECT PAPER (Worth 20% of Course Grade) 3
once you are finished with school. Provide three actions you will take along with how
you will measure outcomes of your actions.
l) Examining areas for further epidemiological research related to an infectious disease or
health condition. Conclude in a clear manner with a brief overview of key points of the
entire disease
