Disease Detectives B/C

[Deathstalker]

I guess I should post a question?
1. What are the steps to public health surveillance?
2. What are the five types of prevention?
3. What do these acronyms stand for?
a. FDA
b. YPLL
c. NNPHI
d. NAPHSIS

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1. Step 1: Data Collection
Step 2: Data Analysis 
Step 3: Data Interpretation
Step 4: Data Dissemination
Step 5: Link to Action 

2. Primordial, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
3. a. Food and Drug Administration
b. Years of Potential Life Lost 
c. National Network of Public Health Institutes
d. National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems

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I guess I should post a question?
1. What are the steps to public health surveillance?
2. What are the five types of prevention?
3. What do these acronyms stand for?
a. FDA
b. YPLL
c. NNPHI
d. NAPHSIS

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[Deathstalker]

I guess I should post a question?
1. What are the steps to public health surveillance?
2. What are the five types of prevention?
3. What do these acronyms stand for?
a. FDA
b. YPLL
c. NNPHI
d. NAPHSIS

Be sure to use the

Click to Show Answer

 tag so that other people can follow along with the questions

Oops, sorry. It's fixed now.

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Be sure to use the

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 tag so that other people can follow along with the questions

Oops, sorry. It's fixed now.

No problem, welcome to the forums!

[Froggie]

I guess I should post a question?
1. What are the steps to public health surveillance?
2. What are the five types of prevention?
3. What do these acronyms stand for?
a. FDA
b. YPLL
c. NNPHI
d. NAPHSIS

answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Step 1: Data Collection
Step 2: Data Analysis 
Step 3: Data Interpretation
Step 4: Data Dissemination
Step 5: Link to Action 

2. Primordial, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary
3. a. Food and Drug Administration
b. Years of Potential Life Lost 
c. National Network of Public Health Institutes
d. National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems

Correct!

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Reviving this! What is the purpose of the control group in an analytical study?

[Froggie]

Reviving this! What is the purpose of the control group in an analytical study?

With a control group, the epidemiologist will be able to tell what a variable changed in the study. For example, if there is a group of people with a certain disease and a similar group of people without the disease and an epidemiologist finds out that a significant number of diseased people were exposed to tomatoes as opposed to almost no one exposed in the not diseased group, the epidemiologist can conclude that the tomatoes might have been the cause of the disease.

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Reviving this! What is the purpose of the control group in an analytical study?

With a control group, the epidemiologist will be able to tell what a variable changed in the study. For example, if there is a group of people with a certain disease and a similar group of people without the disease and an epidemiologist finds out that a significant number of diseased people were exposed to tomatoes as opposed to almost no one exposed in the not diseased group, the epidemiologist can conclude that the tomatoes might have been the cause of the disease.

Yes, your turn

[Froggie]

An epidemiologist studying an outbreak of E Coli finds out that the more hamburgers someone ate, the more the person was at risk for contracting E Coli. Why is this information important?

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An epidemiologist studying an outbreak of E Coli finds out that the more hamburgers someone ate, the more the person was at risk for contracting E Coli. Why is this information important?

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This would suggest that hamburgers caused the E. coli outbreak (dose-response relationship), but more inquiry would be required to conclude anything.