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PUBH8035 Module 1 Assignment; Professional Learning Journal

PUBH8035 Module 6 Discussion; Study Group Outbreak Disease Detective

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...

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: If the incidence rate of a very serious disease is 25/100,000 person-years and the prevalence of this disease in the population is 75/100,000, what is the average survival time of individuals who contract this disease? 2. Question: A report of a clinical trial of a new drug versus a placebo noted that the new drug gave a higher proportion of successes than did the placebo (70% versus 40%). The report ended with the statement that the p value associated with this finding was equal t...

1. Question: Themainpurposeofscreeningistoidentifysymptomaticdiseaseusingtests,exams,orotherprocedures 2. Question: Thedetectablepreclinicalphaseofadiseasestartswhenthediseasecanbeidentifiedbyascreeningtestandendswhenthediseaseproducessymptoms 3. Question: Diseasesthatareappropriateforscreening… 4. Question: Usethefollowinginformationtoanswerquestions4-8.Supposethat50,000womenwhohaveneverhadabreastcancerdiagnosisareavailableandwillingtoparticipateinanew screening program of computerized dig...

AnExperimentalStudyinthePrimaryPreventionofType2DiabetesImaginethatresearchersareconductingarandomizedcontrolledtrialofahigh-fibersupplementasapreventivemeasureinpersonsatincreasedriskoftype2diabetes. Peopleenrolledin thestudyaredisease-freeatthetime theyagreetoparticipateinthetrial,buttheyallhaveafamilyhistoryoftype2diabetesandareconsideredathigh-risk(80%)todevelopthediseaseduring their lifetime. The 10,000 participants who start the trial are healthyindividuals who are randomly allocated to r...

QUESTION1 In this case study, the health department decided to follow up on the original complaint by thestudent and start an investigation to determine whether there was an outbreak. Under whatcircumstances might the health department decide not to follow-up on the complaint? Describe atleast three features of a complaint that would be less likely to indicate an outbreak (hint: thinkabout consistencyand availabilityof information). QUESTION2 Suppose that the initial complaint about a p...

Forthisweek,thearticleIchosewasaboutDietaryGlycemicIndex(GI)and Glycemic Load (GL) and the risk of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). The articleconcluded that the high confidence in causal associations for incident T2D issufficient to consider inclusion of GI and GL in food and nutrient-basedrecommendations(Geoffreyet al.,2019). What is the epidemiological causal inference model used by the authors?Provideadetailedsummaryofhowtheauthorsusedthemodeltoassesstheassociation.

StudyGroupMyResearchQuestion: In chapter 9, the strength and weaknesses of Case-control studies and Cohort studies werehighlighted. And one of the strengths of Case-Control studies is that it is efficient for rarediseases; in other words, conditions that are not common and epidemiologists are still trying tounravelthe nature ofthedisease(Aschengrau,2020).Ithought Covid-19shouldbepart ofsuchdiseases, but many of the epidemiologist studies that I have read in the past involves Cohortstudy,whileno...