Epidemiology Finals Paper

Population: In this section of your report, you will summarize key elements of the research study and analyze the population impacted by the health issue. A. Summarize the people, places, and times represented in the research study to provide context for your report. [IHP-330-02] B. Describe three social and behavioral determinants strongly associated with the public health issue in the research study. Be sure to cite specific examples from the research study to support your description. [IHP-330-01] C. Describe three known disparities associated with the health of the specific population. Be sure to cite specific examples from the research study to support your description. [IHP-330-01] D. Explain how the identified social and behavioral determinants relate to the disparities you identified, and explain your reasoning. [IHP-33001]

II. Health Issue: In this section of your final project, you will analyze the health issue in focus in the research study. You will draw conclusions about the health issue through your review of the research study and by conducting outside research on the topic. A. Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research. [IHP-330-02] B. Describe the mode of transmission of the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research. [IHP-330-02] C. Determine the incidence and prevalence of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations. [IHP-330-03] D. Determine the mortality rate of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations. [IHP-33003] E. Interpret the odds ratio to determine the strength of association between the potential sources of exposure and the disease. [IHP-330-03] F. Using your research and analysis, draw connections between the population and public health issue. Consider where you identified common elements, what you learned about the public health issue by studying the population, and what you learned about the population by studying the public health issue. [IHP-330-03]

III. Levels of Prevention: In this section, you will describe the prevention strategies used by the epidemiologists in the research study. You will identify a strategy for each level of prevention and differentiate between the strategies. A. Describe a primary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the health issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04] B. Describe a secondary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the health issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04]

C. Describe a tertiary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the health issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04] D. Explain how the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies differ in how they address the key factors impacting the health issue in the research study. [IHP-330-04]

IV. Conclusion: Now that you have analyzed the research study, you will develop a research question to further investigate the specific health issue and population, select an appropriate research design, and explain the importance of the research to the field of public health. A. Using your analysis of the research study, develop a research question to further investigate the specific public health issue and impacted population. [IHP-330-05] B. Determine whether an observational or experimental research design would be more appropriate to investigate your research question. Be sure to justify your determination. [IHP-330-05] C. Explain the importance of further research for improving the quality of health in the specific population. What is the potential benefit? [IHP330-05]

IHP 330 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

Epidemiology is the science that allows public health practitioners to study the patterns, causes, and effects of health conditions in defined populations. Public health practitioners rely on epidemiology to understand the risks and protective factors associated with health conditions, and to identify health disparities and specific populations at risk for disease. Studies in epidemiology inform the development of public health policy and targeted interventions to prevent disease and reduce health disparities.

For your final project, you will complete an epidemiological research study report based on the provided research study, “ Salmonella in the Caribbean .”

Epidemiologists in the field are often tasked with developing recommendations to address specific health issues, and part of that process is analyzing what other communities and epidemiologists have already done to address the issues. In your epidemiological research study report, you will analyze a health issue, the population impacted, and the prevention strategies used. You will then develop a research question and determine an appropriate research design to further investigate the issue.

The final project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Four and Five. The final product will be submitted in Module Seven.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

IHP-330-01: Draw connections between health disparities within specific populations and social and behavioral determinants

IHP-330-02: Determine key epidemiological principles of disease by analyzing health research studies

IHP-330-03: Determine patterns and trends of disease causation in specific populations by analyzing health data

IHP-330-04: Differentiate between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies for how they address key factors impacting health issues of specific populations

IHP-330-05: Select epidemiological research designs to investigate disease and improve the quality of health for specific populations

Prompt

For your final project, you will develop an epidemiological research study report on the provided research study, “Salmonella in the Caribbean,” which investigates a public health issue impacting a specific population. In your project, you will analyze the population impacted by the public health issue to accomplish the following:

Make connections between social and behavioral determinants and disparities.

Analyze the health issue to determine key epidemiologic principles and identify patterns and trends.

Examine the levels of prevention used in the research study.

For the conclusion to your research study report, you will develop a research question to further investigate the public health issue and population, and to determine an appropriate research design to investigate the research question.

Specifically, you must address the critical elements listed below. Most of the critical elements align with a particular course outcome (shown in brackets).

I. Population: In this section of your report, you will summarize key elements of the research study and analyze the population impacted by the health issue.

A. Summarize the people, places, and times represented in the research study to provide context for your report. [IHP-330-02]

B. Describe three social and behavioral determinants strongly associated with the public health issue in the research study. Be sure to cite

specific examples from the research study to support your description. [IHP-330-01]

C. Describe three known disparities associated with the health of the specific population. Be sure to cite specific examples from the

research study to support your description. [IHP-330-01]

D. Explain how the identified social and behavioral determinants relate to the disparities you identified, and explain your reasoning. [IHP-330-

01]

II. Health Issue: In this section of your final project, you will analyze the health issue in focus in the research study. You will draw conclusions about the health issue through your review of the research study and by conducting outside research on the topic.

A. Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and

your independent research. [IHP-330-02]

B. Describe the mode of transmission of the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your

independent research. [IHP-330-02]

C. Determine the incidence and prevalence of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations.

[IHP-330-03]

D. Determine the mortality rate of the health issue using the data from the research study to perform the appropriate calculations. [IHP-330-

03]

E. Interpret the odds ratio to determine the strength of association between the potential sources of exposure and the disease. [IHP-330-03]

F. Using your research and analysis, draw connections between the population and public health issue. Consider where you identified common elements, what you learned about the public health issue by studying the population, and what you learned about the population by studying the public health issue. [IHP-330-03]

III. Levels of Prevention: In this section, you will describe the prevention strategies used by the epidemiologists in the research study. You will identify a strategy for each level of prevention and differentiate between the strategies.

A. Describe a primary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the

health issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04]

B. Describe a secondary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the health issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04]

C. Describe a tertiary prevention strategy represented in the research study, and explain how it addresses key factors impacting the health

issue of the specific population. [IHP-330-04]

D. Explain how the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies differ in how they address the key factors impacting the health issue in the research study. [IHP-330-04]

IV. Conclusion: Now that you have analyzed the research study, you will develop a research question to further investigate the specific health issue and population, select an appropriate research design, and explain the importance of the research to the field of public health.

A. Using your analysis of the research study, develop a research question to further investigate the specific public health issue and

impacted population. [IHP-330-05]

B. Determine whether an observational or experimental research design would be more appropriate to investigate your research question. Be

sure to justify your determination. [IHP-330-05]

C. Explain the importance of further research for improving the quality of health in the specific population. What is the potential benefit? [IHP-

330-05]

Milestones

Milestone One : Health Issue

In Module Three, you will analyze the health issue in focus in the provided research study. You will draw conclusions about the health issue through your review of the research study and by conducting outside research on the topic. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric.

Milestone Two : Population

In Module Five, you will summarize the key elements of the research study and analyze the population impacted by the health issue. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric.

Final Submission : Epidemiological Research Study Analysis

In Module Seven, you will submit your final project. It should be a complete, polished artifact containing all of the critical elements of the final product. It should reflect the incorporation of feedback gained throughout the course. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric.

Final Project Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your final project should be 4–6 pages, double spaced, with one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font, and APA formatting and citations.

Critical Elements	Exemplary (100%)	Proficient (85%)	Needs Improvement (55%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Population:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Summarizes the people, places,	Summarizes the people, places,	Does not summarize the people,	6.4
Summarize	summary demonstrates a	and times represented in the	and times represented in the	places, and times represented in
[IHP-330-02]	sophisticated awareness of the	research study to provide	research study to provide	the research study to provide
	epidemiologic principles in the	context for the report	context for the report, but	context for the report
	research study		response has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support
Population: Social	Meets “Proficient” criteria and	Describes three social and	Describes three social and	Does not describe three social	6.4
and Behavioral	demonstrates keen insight into	behavioral determinants	behavioral determinants	and behavioral determinants
Determinants	social and behavioral	strongly associated with the	strongly associated with the	strongly associated with the
[IHP-330-01]	determinants of public health	public health issue in the	public health issue in the	public health issue in the
	issues	research study	research study, but response is missing one or more determinants or has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support	research study
Population:	Meets “Proficient” criteria and	Describes three known	Describes three known	Does not describe three known	6.4
Disparities	demonstrates keen insight into	disparities associated with the	disparities associated with the	disparities associated with the
[IHP-330-01]	the disparities associated with	health of the specific	health of the specific	health of the specific population
	public health issues	population	population, but response is missing one or more disparities or has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support
Population:	Meets “Proficient” criteria and	Explains how the social and	Explains how the social and	Does not explain how the social	6.4
Determinants Relate	draws insightful connections	behavioral determinants relate	behavioral determinants relate	and behavioral determinants
to the Disparities	between social and behavioral	to the disparities identified	to the disparities identified	relate to the disparities identified
[IHP-330-01]	determinants and known	with reasoning	with reasoning, but response	with reasoning
	disparities		has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support
Health Issue: Risk	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Describes the risk factors	Describes the risk factors	Does not describe the risk factors	6.4
Factors	support demonstrates keen	associated with the public	associated with the public	associated with the public health
[IHP-330-02]	insight into the risk factors	health issue, supporting	health issue, supporting	issue
	associated with public health	description with evidence from	description with evidence from
	issues	the research study and from	the research study and from
		independent research	independent research, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support

Health Issue: Mode of	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Describes the mode of	Describes the mode of	Does not describe the mode of	6.4
Transmission	support demonstrates keen	transmission of the public	transmission of the public	transmission of the public health
[IHP-330-02]	insight into the mode of	health issue, supporting	health issue, supporting	issue
	transmission of public health	description with evidence from	description with evidence from
	issues	the research study and from	the research study and from
		independent research	independent research, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support
Health Issue:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Determines the incidence and	Determines the incidence and	Does not determine the	4.8
Incidence and	response demonstrates	prevalence of the health issue	prevalence of the health issue	incidence and prevalence of the
Prevalence	complex grasp of how to	using the data from the	using the data from the	health issue using the data from
[IHP-330-03]	determine the incidence and	research study and performing	research study and performing	the research study
	prevalence of a disease by	the appropriate calculations	calculations, but calculations
	analyzing health data		are inappropriate, or determination has gaps in detail, clarity, or logic
Health Issue:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Determines the mortality rate	Determines the mortality rate	Does not determine the mortality	4.8
Mortality	response demonstrates	of the health issue using the	of the health issue using the	rate of the health issue using the
[IHP-330-03]	complex grasp of how to	data from the research study	data from the research study	data from the research study
	determine the mortality rate of	and performing the	and performing calculations,
	a disease by analyzing health	appropriate calculations	but calculations are
	data		inappropriate, or determination has gaps in detail, clarity, or logic
Health Issue: Odds	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Interprets the odds ratio to	Interprets the odds ratio to	Does not interpret the odds ratio	4.8
Ratio	determination demonstrates	determine the strength of	determine the strength of	to determine the strength of
[IHP-330-03]	keen insight into interpreting	association between the	association between the	association between the
	trends and patterns of disease	potential sources of exposure	potential sources of exposure	potential sources of exposure
	causation	and the disease	and the disease, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, or accuracy	and the disease
Health Issue:	Meets “Proficient” criteria and	Draws connections between	Draws connections between	Does not draw connections	4.8
Connections	uses research and analysis to	the population and public	the population and public	between the population and
[IHP-330-03]	make especially cogent	health issue based on research	health issue based on research	public health issue
	connections between the	and analysis	and analysis, but response has
	population and public health		gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy,
	issue		or support

Levels of Prevention:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Describes a primary prevention	Describes a primary prevention	Does not describe a primary	4.8
Primary Prevention	explanation demonstrates	strategy represented in the	strategy represented in the	prevention strategy represented
Strategy	keen insight into how primary	research study, explaining how	research study, explaining how	in the research study
[IHP-330-04]	prevention strategies address	it addresses key factors	it addresses key factors
	key factors impacting health	impacting the health issue of	impacting the health issue of
	issues of specific populations	the specific population	the specific population, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, or accuracy
Levels of Prevention:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Describes a secondary	Describes a secondary	Does not describe a secondary	4.8
Secondary Prevention	explanation demonstrates	prevention strategy	prevention strategy	prevention strategy represented
Strategy	keen insight into how	represented in the research	represented in the research	in the research study
[IHP-330-04]	secondary prevention	study, explaining how it	study, explaining how it
	strategies address key factors	addresses key factors	addresses key factors
	impacting health issues of	impacting the health issue of	impacting the health issue of
	specific populations	the specific population	the specific population, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, or accuracy
Levels of Prevention:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Describes a tertiary prevention	Describes a tertiary prevention	Does not describe a tertiary	4.8
Tertiary Prevention	explanation demonstrates	strategy represented in the	strategy represented in the	prevention strategy represented
Strategy	keen insight into how tertiary	research study, explaining how	research study, explaining how	in the research study
[IHP-330-04]	prevention strategies address	it addresses key factors	it addresses key factors
	key factors impacting health	impacting the health issue of	impacting the health issue of
	issues of specific populations	the specific population	the specific population, but response has gaps in detail, clarity, or accuracy
Levels of Prevention:	Meets “Proficient” criteria, and	Explains how the primary,	Explains how the primary,	Does not explain how the	4.8
Prevention Strategies	explanation demonstrates	secondary, and tertiary	secondary, and tertiary	primary, secondary, and tertiary
Differ	keen insight into how different	prevention strategies differ in	prevention strategies differ in	prevention strategies differ in
[IHP-330-04]	prevention strategies address	how they address the key	how they address the key	how they address the key factors
	key factors impacting health	factors impacting the health	factors impacting the health	impacting the health issues in the
	issues of specific populations	issues in the research study	issues in the research study, but with gaps in detail, clarity, or accuracy	research study

Conclusion: Research

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and

Develops a research question

Does not develop a research

6.4

Question

research question is especially

to further investigate the

question to further investigate

[IHP-330-05]

well-crafted for examining the

specific public health issue and

the specific public health issue

specific public health issue and

impacted population based on

impacted population, but

and impacted population

impacted population

analysis of research study

question is illogical or not based on analysis of research study

Conclusion: Research

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and

Determines whether an

Does not determine whether an

6.4

Design

justification demonstrates

observational or experimental

[IHP-330-05]

keen insight into the

research design would be more

appropriate use of research

appropriate to investigate the

designs to investigate disease

research questions, justifying

research questions

for improving the quality of

determination

determination, but response

health

has gaps in detail, clarity, accuracy, or support

Conclusion:

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and

Explains the importance of

Does not explain the importance

6.4

Importance

explanation demonstrates

further research for improving

of further research for improving

[IHP-330-05]

keen insight into how the

the quality of health in the

investigation of disease can

specific population

specific population, but with

specific population

improve the quality of health for specific populations

gaps in logic or detail

Articulation of

Submission is free of errors

Submission has no major errors

Submission has major errors

Submission has critical errors

Response

related to citations, grammar,

spelling, syntax, and

spelling, syntax, or organization

organization and is presented

that negatively impact

that prevent understanding of

in a professional and easy-to-

readability and articulation of

ideas

read format

main ideas

Total

100%