Ans. NR717 Week 2 Discussion: Epidemiology and Health Surveillance

  1. Explore the epidemiologic principles and measures used to address your selected practice problem at the national and specific geographic (city or county level) location for the population you have selected.
  2. Examine the use of descriptive and/or analytic epidemiology to address the practice problem and include data points (i.e., prevalence, incidence, mortality).
  3. Propose how you might use surveillance to influence the determinants of health and improve the health outcomes of your population.
  4. Anticipate any ethical concerns that you might have related to the use of surveillance data in your population.

 Answer

Several epidemiologic principles and measures will need to be employed to address the complexity of heart disease in African Americans. Nationally, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the National Health and Nutrition Examination can provide surveillance to continuously monitor heart disease incidence, prevalence, and mortality rates within a population…………….. Kindly click the purchase icon to access the full solution for $6 or WHATSAPP +254712575747