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For many years there has been risk factors to diseases. This is no longer anything new in healthcare. Observational studies are one of the studies of risk factors to disease due to that is would be dangerous and unethical to place people in to studies that would knowingly cause harm just to study how the risk affect their health.

(Fletcher, Fletcher, & Fletcher, 2014). There were many types of risk factor discussed in our textbook. One that is discussed is common exposure to risk factors. This is more relatable to most people because a major factor is lifestyle such has smoking and poor diet are just some examples that puts people at risk for diseases whether its strokes or cancers.

Epidemiology studies impact interventions that can reduce risk factors because it helps change way things are done. Risk factor that you hear a lot about is people who live sedative lives leads to obesity which put people at higher risks for diseases. A epidemiology study was done in the UK. "Physical inactivity and obesity are the major causes of CHD and stroke events (incidence and mortality) in Herefordshire" (Syed, Talbot-Smith, & Gemmell, 2012).

They wanted to prevent these events from occurring so they were focused on prevention. This study showed that by decreasing this risk factor only by 5% annually made an amorous impact on lowering the risks. (Syed, Talbot-Smith, & Gemmell, 2012). This study was done over five years which showed that there was risk to having a sedative lifestyle would increase risks to diseases and showed that best evidence based practice is to encourage patients to become physically active to help reduce their risk.

Healthcare workers who use evidence based medicine are looking to help promote the best and lowest care for their patients. (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). Our job in healthcare especially nurses is to educate our patients in promoting healthy lifestyles and using epidemiology studies and applying evidenced based practice is effective way to do this.

References

Fletcher, R. H., Fletcher, S. W., & Fletcher, G. S. (2014). Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials (5th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Melnyk, B., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2015). Evidence Based Practice in Nursing & Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Syed, A. M., Talbot-Smith, A., & Gemmell, I. (2012, September). The Use of Epidemiological Measures to Estimate the Impact of Primary Prevention Interventions on CHD, stroke and Cancer Outcomes: Experiences From Herefordshire, UK. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 2(3), 111-124.