Building Your Evidence Base (Opiod Addiction or drug overdose suicide) For this assignment, you will assume the role of a public health leader. (Refer to the Vila Health: Public Health Roles and Essential Services challenge). Create an evidence table based on what you have gathered on your chosen emerging public health issue. Overview Using the […]
What is the null hypothesis, and if the nurse’s assessment was correct, would it be accepted or rejected?
Nursing Research & Evidence-Based Practice Module 4 Individual Case Study Discussion Questions Chapter 16 The nurse epidemiologist is monitoring hand washing in a facility. The facility has had a series of infections with resistant organisms in its clients, and the concern is that hand washing may be the cause. The nurse is performing a series […]
Perform inferential statistics on this dataset and then write your findings in the format of a research abstract.
Read Chapter 10 of the Salkind textbook and attended the Module 8 Lecture, you will complete an in-class analysis of a healthcare dataset using the SPSS statistical software. Perform inferential statistics on this dataset and then write your findings in the format of a research abstract. Background Information: You are an infectious disease epidemiologist investigating […]
Given what you know about how bias can affect the measure of association and therefore what we infer from a study’s findings, do you agree with Taubes’ assertion that small risks essentially mean the absence of risk?
What we believe determines what we want to study and how we study it. This is a somewhat dangerous statement in science, where being objective is an ideal. However, it’s true that the approach to designing and conducting a study may be inherently (and unintentionally) biased simply an investigator’s viewpoint and preconceived notions about the […]
What prevention techniques have you learned about in the course materials and your discussions with your classmates that could have averted this outbreak?
You are an epidemiologist for your local health department, and you are conducting an outbreak investigation of the disease you chose for this week’s discussion. In your role as a health department official, you are interviewing a fictitious patient who has/had this disease. Using research you gathered when completing your discussion assignment, complete this questionnaire […]
What additional data would you ascertain and analyze regarding the gender differences that exist in the reasons behind TB stigma?
Class: Cultural Epidemiology Academic Style: Chicago Style When the Bough Breaks: attached Question: What biomedical and social factors based on socioeconomic status, presence of institutional and social racism/sexism, and mental health can be found that link the documentary “When the Bough Breaks” and the article regarding TB stigma in Bangladesh? Based on the conclusions, results, […]