Role of epidemiology in disease prevention
Your essay should include at least the sections listed below;
Introduce your topic. Review the challenges and problems associated with your topic. Explain the role of epidemiology in disease prevention, and contrast two possible strategies for such preventive efforts. Describe risk assessment, and discuss the role of epidemiology in such assessments. Review the community health literature. Provide a critical analysis of challenges/problems. Discuss how epidemiology can shape public policy through the courts. Provide recommended solutions. Explain the implementation of the solutions. Explain the role of meta-analysis as a tool for summarizing epidemiologic evidence and creating public policy. Consider how privacy and confidentiality of health records are protected in epidemiological studies. Provide a justification of the solutions. Describe the scientific and ethical implications of classifying race and ethnicity in epidemiologic studies. Include a conclusion.
List your sources on a references page.
Your essay should be at least six pages in length. You should include a references page; however, the references page will not count toward meeting the minimum page requirement. You will need at least two outside sources for your essay beyond the course textbook
