NURS 8310 Week 10: Chronic Disease Management: Mortality And Morbidity The management of chronic disease poses a significant health care challenge in the United States and elsewhere. By the year 2030, chronic disease will cost the world over 47 trillion dollars annually (Bloom, et al, 2011; Jaslow, 2011). As noted in Week 6, many of…

NURS 8310 Week 6: Epidemiological Applications, Part 2 and Data Interpretation Can a person’s experience with racial discrimination impact aging and his or her physical health? The answer may be yes, according to a preliminary epidemiologic research study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Institute of Health (Szanton et al.,…

NURS 8310 Week 7: Application of Measures of Effect Week 7: Application of Measures of Effect   Working near farm fields may be hazardous to your health. A recent epidemiologic study revealed a link between three agricultural pesticides and the development of Parkinson’s disease (Wang et al., 2011; UCLA, 2011). This link was initially suspected…

NURS 8310 WEEK 4 Discussion 2: Epidemiologic Designs Discussion 2: Epidemiologic Designs   As introduced in the first few weeks of this course, investigators use various epidemiological study designs to study health problems and the effects of health interventions. You have examined several study designs, including descriptive designs (in Week 2) and analytic study designs…

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NURS8310 Week 4 Discussion 1: Epidemiology In The News- Randomized Trials Week 4: Analytic Epidemiology Designs: Experimental   In the fall of 2011, the FDA announced a shortage of important chemotherapy drugs; this shortage, in turn, disrupted clinical trials and led to potential challenges in assessing data from those studies. Experimental research, which includes clinical…

NURS 8310 Week 2: Descriptive Epidemiology and Sources of Population Health Data In 2009, the FDA and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made policy recommendations that all girls ages 11 or 12 should consider receiving the Human Pappillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in an effort to prevent cervical cancer. What investigations led to this controversial recommendation? How…

Discussion: Epidemiology and Population Health Reflect on your nursing practice for a moment. If you could wipe out one illness, what would it be? How would that impact not just an individual patient, but your entire patient population? What would be the long-term benefits of eliminating that one illness?   The eradication of smallpox by…

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NURS 8310 Week 2 Discussion: Descriptive Epidemiology essay assignment HIV/AIDS was first recognized as an epidemic in the United States in 1981. At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, the life expectancy for infected persons was less than 7 years. Today, because of research and new treatment options, people who begin treatment soon after diagnosis…