BHS 210 TUI Descriptive & Analytic Epidemiology Discussion

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This assignments has two parts.

Part 1. Write a descriptive epidemiological analysis of the following diseases: Lyme disease or Malaria.

Describe the basic epidemiological patterns of this health condition by person, place, and time.

Part 2 You are a Health Officer for a rural county health department and have been assigned to study the frequency of an infectious disease such as tuberculosis or HIV/AIDS. write an essay in which you do the following:

1. Describe observational and experimental epidemiology as the two (2) study designs apply to either of the diseases you have chosen. Be sure to identify differences between these two types of analytic epidemiology.

2. Under what conditions will you conduct a case-control study as opposed to a cohort study?

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Running head: DESCRIPTIVE AND ANALYTIC EPIDEMIOLOGY

Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology
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Descriptive and Analytic Epidemiology
Part 1
Malaria is amongst epidemics that have been declared worldwide health concern as it is a
major cause of death globally. Countries have been collaborating with NGOs to control and
eliminate malaria. However, the biggest challenge facing the control of malaria is the increasing
imported cases of malaria (Tebernero, Fernandez, et al., 2014). For countries to effectively
control malaria, they need first to know how to manage imported malaria cases. This can help
them to sustain malaria control. Anopheles mosquito transmits malaria. A person infected with
malaria demonstrates symptoms such as fever, chills, anemia, and so forth. Children and the
minority are highly exposed to malaria. Basic symptoms in children include impaired
consciousness, convulsions, hypoglemia, and so on (Tebernero, Fernandez, et al., 2014). Malaria
is mostly transmitted in dawn and dusk. Malaria epidemiology changes from one geographical
region to another, and this depends on the intensity of local malaria transmission. In 2015, Africa
recorded 395,000 malaria deaths (Tebernero, Fernandez, et al., 2014). Malaria impacts are felt
within ...


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