Health Medical Homework Help

Review the following websites and activities.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (n.d.) Solve the outbreak. Disease detective. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/web-ap…

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2018). Partnering to heal. Retrieved from https://health.gov/hcq/training-partnering-to-heal…

You will post this response to the online Journal using the text submission tool.

Create a journal entry of 200-250 words reflecting on your personal experiences or thoughts regarding the activities at these sites, the content and epidemiological methods utilized. Are you able to identify modes of transmission and implement interventions better with these learning tools? Have you ever participated in an outbreak investigation or care of a person during such an event? Share your insights to outbreak investigation and the use of epidemiology tools.

Unit 5 Reading Assignments

In Clinical Epidemiology, read:

Chapter 7: “Diagnosis”

Chapter 8: “Prognosis”

Chapter 9: “Treatment”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. Solve the outbreak. Disease detective. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/mobile/applications/sto/web-app.html

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2017). Partnering to heal. Retrieved from https://health.gov/hcq/training-partnering-to-heal.asp

Yakubovich, A.R. et al. (2017). A systematic review of prospective risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence victimization among women. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, (Suppl_1 Suppl 1), A46. doi:10.1136/jech-2017-SSMAbstracts.91

Web Resources

● Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC]. (2014). Principles of epidemiology in public health practice. An Introduction to applied epidemiology and biostatistics. (3rd ed.). Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/index.html

● Department of Health and Human Services. (2018). Leading health indicators. Retrieved from http://healthypeople.gov/2020/LHI/default.aspx

● Healthy People 2020. (2018). Topics and objectives. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives

● United States Preventive Services. (2018, March). USPSTF A and B recommendations. Retrieved from https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Name/uspstf-a-and-b-recommendations/

This unit you will learn how epidemiology impacts diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Without intervention, conditions and diseases have a natural history or natural course of evolution. Through analysis of clinical intervention standards, developed via epidemiological studies, the most effective probable positive outcome of a specific treatment can be chosen. Estimation of survival time and clinical prediction can be made based on historical probabilities or rules, tied to studies. Likelihood and probabilities are not used alone in determining outcomes. The patient specific characteristics, personal condition variability factors, risks and preferences are also to be considered.

Evaluation of randomized controlled trials are considered the Gold standard in epidemiological studies when evaluation of treatment options are considered, though due consideration is also given to observational type study outcomes and expert authority opinion as well, Guidelines, protocols and meta-analysis are developed from epidemiological studies for use in determining, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Additionally in this unit you will explore concepts such as chain of infection and outbreak solution processes which are also developed from the use of epidemiological tools.

After completing this unit, you should be able to:

• Discuss the key epidemiological terms related to diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.
• Explain examples of how epidemiological studies impacted knowledge of diagnosis, prognosis or clinical treatment.
• Identify the use epidemiology in of outbreak investigations.