MPH516 2021 August Module 5 Discussion Latest

MPH516 Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Public Health Application 2

Module 5 Discussion

Environmental and Occupational Applications of Epidemiology

Purpose

Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In the discussions, students should

demonstrate an understanding of the concepts for the module;

integrate professional resources;

engage in meaningful and respectful dialogue with classmates; and

express thoughts clearly and logically.

Course Outcomes

This discussion provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes:

CO2: Apply advanced quantitative biostatistical procedures and qualitative biostatistical procedures to relevant public health data sets to identify associations between causative factors and outcomes.

CO4: Analyze the results from statistical computing packages reporting results accurately and within context to the given public health data sets.

CO7: Assess factors associated with environmental, biological, social, and behavioral aspects of infectious and chronic diseases in relation to health outcomes.

CO8: Critique and analyze data sets to ensure that they are free from bias in developing studies to improve public health outcomes by identifying potential associations or possible outcomes.

This week we learn the importance of epidemiology in preventing disease as it applies to environmental hazards and occupational hazards and accidents. Your assignment for this discussion is to apply this to your own occupational environment, or if you can’t study something that impacts your community. Determine an occupational or community hazard that you meet every day. This could be a chemical, a disease, air pollution, water issues, etc. Just make sure it is an environmental or occupational hazard that impacts you or your community. Find a study about this and critique it. What type of study was completed? What did they find? What preventions or recommendations did this study have? How does this impact you?

If you are unable to determine a hazard for you or your occupation, consider Chernobyl, oil spills, hurricanes, wildfires, lead exposure in children, or the great fog in London. What major impacts occured as a result of these due to health and then policy changes?