What is descriptive epidemiology and what is its purpose

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Assignment: Descriptive Epidemiology: Person, Place, Time

Respond to each of the following:

A. What did you find most interesting and/or thought provoking in chapter 4?

B. What is "descriptive epidemiology" and what is its purpose?

C. What is the difference between "descriptive studies" and "analytic studies? If you were an epidemiologist which would you prefer to be involved with? Why?

D. There are three common ways of stating a hypotheses; positive declaration, negative declaration, and implicit question. Pick one of these and develop a hypothesis of your own for a public health issue that is of interest to you.

E. What is "acculturation", and have you personally experienced or witnessed it?

F. Do you feel that acculturation generally has a positive or negative impact on the health of the individual being acculturated? Why?

G. Of the "Characteristics of Persons", what do you feel is most useful to an epidemiologist? Why?

H. Of the "Characteristics of Place", what do you feel is most useful to an epidemiologist? Why?

I. Of the "Characteristics of Time", what do you feel is most useful to an epidemiologist? Why?

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