Essay On Pro Vaccinations

HEAL 385 Epidemiology 3 CH – Leone Fall 2018

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EPIDEMIOLOGY TIMELINE PAPER*: Students will write papers and make presentations concerning trends for specific diseases over the past 25 years. Each student will be assigned a disease and will develop a presentation that will include background information about the disease, concepts regarding causation, transmission, and prevention; trends in the disease over the past 25 years; information regarding age, gender, race, nationality, geography; projections for future trends of the disease. Paper Guidelines: * In reporting your findings, consider the following to include in your paper:

1. Introduction/Background – provide a brief yet comprehensive historical account of the disease you have addressed. Include any vital statistics that you considered. Be sure to discuss/report how the disease originated, emerged, and was tracked via epidemiologic methods.

2. Major points of epidemiology – that is person, place, time, and any other surveillance methods to chronicle the disease.

3. Impact - how does the disease affect/impact public health; how does it impact public health policy?

4. Timeline – Include a timeline that highlights the major points and key event pertaining to the disease/condition. This should be a comprehensive referenced timeline.

5. Future Directions – what has been done in addressing this disease? Are rates increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable? Has any biotechnology assisted with tracking, treating, or eliminating this disease? Discuss any major advances in these fields.

6. Conclusions – summarize what you found and learn from researching this disease in terms of the major objectives of epidemiology.

7. References – list any references you used in preparing the paper and presentation using APA or AMA style guidelines.

The paper should follow standard guidelines including Times or Times New Roman font, 11 or 12 point font size, one inch margins on all sides, double spaced text throughout the paper, a title page with the project title, your name, date, course number, instructor, stapled/bound, and printed in black ink. If you have any questions, please ask EARLY!

EPIDEMIOLOGY PRESENTATION*: Students will make a brief 5 – 10 minute presentation to the class on their particular disease. ** A rubric concerning the PowerPoint presentation will be posted early on in the semester on Blackboard.