Reference no: EM133223228 , Length: word count:1500
ESSAY:
You are required to choose a Specific named developing country and identify infectious disease outbreak. Critically discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the study designs used to identify risk factors and frequency. This essay should demonstrate the ability to comprehend and understand epidemiology terms and to analyse the contributing economic, political, environmental, and social causal factors to the disease
Basic calculations guide
• Crude death rate
Total # of deaths per calendar year/ Estimated mid-year population that year x 1000 or 10000
• Cause specific death rate
Total # of deaths from a cause in an age range per year/ Estimated mid-year population in age range that year x 1000 or 10000
• Age specific death rate
Total # of deaths per year/Estimated mid-year population that year x 1000 or 10000
• Infant mortality rate
Total # deaths <1 in a time period/total number of live births in same time period x 1000
• Standard mortality rate
Total # of deaths (age group) / expected deaths that year (age group) x 100
• Death to case fatality Total # deaths of a specific cause in a time period/# of new cases of same disease in the same time period x 100
• Case fatality
# died / # cases x 100
• Primary attack rate
#died/# at risk x 1000
• Secondary attack rate #cases in contact with primary cases/total number of contacts x 100 or 1000