Facts on a health condition
Facts on a health condition
Order Description
For this paper, please choose a health condition (or disease) of interest to you and include the following:
• Briefly describe the burden (incidence/prevalence/mortality) of the health condition using epidemiologic studies/data (include references).
• Briefly describe the known risk factors for the health condition using epidemiologic studies/data (include references).
• Design/propose an epidemiologic study you would want to conduct to identify additional risk factors for this health condition or to evaluate a new intervention for
this health condition. Please be sure to address the following questions:
o What is your research question and why is it important to address?
o What epidemiologic study design you would use and why is it appropriate?
o Who would you enroll in your study and how would you recruit these study participants?
o How would you collect the data? (ex: survey study participants or review medical records)
o What statistics would you calculate to analyze the data you collected? (prevalence, incidence, odds ratio, relative risk, etc)
o What would be some biases/limitations of your study?
This final paper must not exceed 5 pages (references not included). You must use 12 point font, double spaced. The paper needs to be submitted on-line through “turn-
it-in” on the class Moodle website.
To writer: (Feel free to use whatever health condition you would like) Thank you!