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Assignment:

Descriptive epidemiology is used to evaluate trends in health and
disease and to be able to make comparisons among the population and
subgroups within countries; and to provide a basis for planning,
provision, and evaluation of services.

As a health officer, you have been asked to collect information to
characterize and summarize tuberculosis epidemic in your state.

Write a paper in which you do the following:

1. Discuss the pattern and distribution of the disease in the population of your state as well as subgroups within the state.
2. What recommendations would you make to your administrator based on your findings?
3. Describe the basic types of epidemiologic study designs that are
   used to test hypotheses, identify associations and establish causation.

Be sure you support essay with evidence from the literature.

Expectations: Length: 2–3 pages, excluding title page and references. 4 References from required reading.

Required Readings:Boston University School of Public Health (n.d.). Overview of analytic studies. Retrieved from http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP71…

Carneiro, I. & Howard, N. (2011). Introduction to epidemiology (2^nd ed). Open University Press: New York, NY. ISBN: 9780335244621

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2012). Lesson 1:
Introduction to Epidemiology, Section 6: Descriptive Epidemiology.
Principles of epidemiology in public health practice (3rd ed.), pp.
1-31. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Workforce
and Career Development, Atlanta, GA.
http://www.cdc.gov/ophss/csels/dsepd/ss1978/lesson…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014). E-learning course – Introduction to public health surveillance. Accessed from https://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/documents/intr…

Ellis-Christensen, T. (2016). What is descriptive epidemiology? Retrieved from: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-descriptive-epidem…