EP CASE 2
Laswanframfllei74Twenty-five children in Fallsburg Elementary School (with a population of 60 pupils) received their immunization against whooping cough to protect the school’s student population. In your role as health officer, you collected the documentation from parents on the first day of school. You found that 25 students had received their immunization against the disease. You have been asked to explain some basic epidemiologic concepts to the parents who did not have their children immunized.
You have been tasked to do the following:
- Define the term population at risk and indicate which of the elementary students are not at risk.
- Also describe the difference between incidence and prevalence.
- Be sure to provide in-text citation(s) and a reference list to support your viewpoints. Please use at least three (3) research sources (not Wikipedia, or fact sheets). Please do so in ALL subsequent submissions. DS
Be sure to justify your response with evidence from the literature.
Assignment Expectations
Length: 2–3 pages.
New York Department of Health- Basic Statistics. Retrieved on 10/1/13 from www.health.ny.gov/diseases/chronic/basicstat.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Ten Leading Causes of Death and Injury (2003). Retrieved on 10/1/13 from http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html
Definition of Mortality Rate. Retrieved on 10/1/13 from www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10118
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved on 10/1/13 from ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/fundepi/PDFs/Lecture6.pdf
Gerstman B (2005). Epidemiology Kept Simple. Chapter 6: Incidence and Prevalence Greatly Abridged. San Jose State University. Retrieved on 10/1/13 from http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/eks/06-formulas.pdf
Be sure to provide in-text citation(s) and a reference list to support your viewpoints. Please use at least three (3) research sources (not Wikipedia, or fact sheets). Please do so in ALL subsequent submissions.
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