Descriptive Epidemiology and TB

Descriptive Epidemiology and TB

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

1. - This assignment involves responding to the Assignment of another student (See uploaded student assignment)

- Discuss about Descriptive epidemiology and provides examples how is applied in Tuberculosis. See uploaded articles. Also briefly discuss the importance of surveillance to control TB

- Although studies are from other countries, get the general concepts from it but try to focus on TB in the US.

“One of the main applications of epidemiology is facilitate the identification of geographic regions and vulnerable groups that are at greater risk of morbidity and mortality of TB. Identification of geographic areas and high-risk groups contribute to selection proper social and health measures in other to reduce risk factors (9). Geographic epidemiology is one part of descriptive epidemiology that evaluates geographic distribution of morbidity and mortality rates (10). One of the most important applications of geographic epidemiology is achievement clues to determine the causes of diseases, injuries and mortality”  Beiranvand, R., Karimi, A., Delpisheh, A., Sayehmiri, K., Soleimani, S., & Ghalavandi, S. (2016).

 

“Surveillance is a key component of efforts to control and eradicate tuberculosis (TB) globally” Bourgeois, A., Zulz, T., Soborg, B., & Koch, A. (2016). DOI:10.3402/ijch.v75.30322

2. You may research other articles but Remember reference must be scholarly, peer reviewed article. Please include DOI numbers on the reference page (It’s required in APA). References MUST be scholarly journal articles (Nothing from other book, conferences, goggle, .com). YOU CAN REFERENCE OUR TEXBOOK (Merrill, 2017), but as a 3^rd reference, should have 2 research articles
3. This assignment is for the DNP class and the grading is rigorous including grammar and APA style.

Thank you and let me know if you have any questions

***Please don’t start with sentences that start with “this, these, it…etc” this is vague and not use in formal writing. Need to specify what we are talking about. Also don’t use citations in the middle of the sentence. Avoid “as well as” as much as possible.

 

Citations:

Beiranvand, R., Karimi, A., Delpisheh, A., Sayehmiri, K., Soleimani, S., & Ghalavandi, S. (2016). Correlation assessment of climate and geographic distribution of tuberculosis using geographical information system (GIS). Iranian Journal of Public Health, 45(1), 86-93. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822399/

Bourgeois, A., Zulz, T., Soborg, B., & Koch, A. (2016). Descriptive review of tuberculosis surveillance systems across the circumpolar regions. International Journal of Circumpolar Health (Online), 75(1), 1-8.

Oren, E., Narita, M., Nolan, C., & Mayer, J. (2014). Neighborhood socioeconomic position and tuberculosis transmission: A retrospective cohort study. BMC Infectious Diseases, 14, 227. DOI:10.1186/1471-2334-14-227