Norwich NR514 Discussions Latest 2021 July (Full)

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 1 Discussion

Windshield Tour

Take a walk or drive around the geographic area of the population you are interested in. This may be around the hospital or clinic where you work, or in an area you are interested in serving. For instance, when you go into the poorest areas of Chicago, you see:

General socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions

A disproportionate amount bill boards for alcohol and tobacco products,

A dearth of fresh food stores

Social and Community Networks

Some poorly and some well-maintained neighborhoods

Police “blue light” cameras to try to deter gang activity

Individual lifestyle factors

Few gyms

Many pay day loan stores

Hint: Look at the project requirements in Week 02 Assignment - Public Health. It will be helpful to evaluate the area in terms of your topic of interest.

Question(s):

Post a video, or power point or some other easily accessible presentation with pictures of the area you toured (See Resources > Student Handbook > Discussions > How to Access, Record a Video in Discussion for help).

Identify and discuss three risk factors that affect the population in this area. These might be good or disconcerting. Try to identify one in each of the Dahlgren-Whitehead rainbow models.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 2 Discussion

Visit the CDC Public Health Law News Archives, and choose one of the reports.

In no more than 300 words, discuss:

Why did you choose your report?

Why is this particular report important to society and how it fits in the Dahlgren-Whitehead model?

Using what you have learned through your nursing education, what are your thoughts about how you might affect legislation around this issue at the local level or above?

Visit: NCSL. (2021, April, 26). State Action on Coronavirus (COVID-19). National Conference of State Legislatures. Choose one state that passed a piece of legislation regarding health care and Covid-19.

Why did you choose this legislation?

What does the legislation provide for?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 3 Discussion

Read: Kolifarhood, G., Aghaali,M., Saadati, H.M., Taherpour, N., Rahimi, S., Izadi, M., & Nazari, S.S.H. (2020, April). Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of COVID-19; a Narrative Review (PDF). Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 8(1): e41.

Use this article to apply some of the concepts about incidence and prevalence to COVID-19. Be sure to read the entire article (don't just do a search) and discuss the following:

What do we know about the statistics around the mean incubation periods?

What about the median infectivity, pathogenicity and incubation periods?

What is the range of incubation?

What information would be helpful to know that is missing?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 4 Discussion

Read: WHO. (2018).  Monitoring Health for the SDGs Sustainable Development Goals Annex A. WHO: World Health Statistics.

Then summarize the morbidity and mortality information across countries in this article and compare the US from other American Countries and nationalities in any one of the following measures.

Maternal Mortality

Child Mortality

HIV

Hep B

Non-communicable disease

Suicide

What surprised you (if anything)?

For participation details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions. Your Activity Completion box will be checked when you receive a grade for this discussion. Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 5 Discussion

From the following study below, pick any category in the table at bottom of paper (Supplementary Material), such as HIV or maternal disorders, and discuss changes or trends in prevalence, incidence, and years lived with disability.

Hint: Pick the topic consistent with your project. What are at least two relevant implications for prevention or intervention?

Vos, T., Abajobir, A., Abate, K., ... et. al. (2017). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet. [Library Link]

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 6 Discussion

Identify and discuss a health problem of interest using the Healthy People 2030 data (no more than 600 words.) You can use the same public health problem you are choosing for your project paper if you wish.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 7 Discussion

Explain at least one positive and one negative impact of knowing the genetic propensity of a person to develop a disease.

How does one integrate genetic information into a health assessment impact?

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 8 Discussion

There are multiple measures for health-related quality of life. Do you think this can or cannot be adequately measured?

Cite at least two differing resources.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 9 Discussion

Why do you think translational research is sometimes referred to as "the valley of death?” How has this assignment impacted your thoughts on this subject?

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 10 Discussion

Another field trip. If you have a local Dollar General, Dollar store or anything similar, go there and take a picture of the food sections. Drive around the area for a few miles to see other stores in which to purchase food. In two paragraphs discuss the pros and cons of each store in the community and what it has to offer.

Upload a picture with your discussion.

NR514 Epidemiology and Population Health

Week 11 Discussion

Now that you have submitted your elevator pitch assignment, please post it to your discussion forum and compare with the other members of your class. See your Student handbook on Uploading Video Discussion Forum for help with this.

To review the scenario: You are applying for funding for your project. You are given an opportunity to advocate for funding or acceptance of your program.

Your pitch should be 90 seconds or less

You can use props but no PowerPoint slides.

Your pitch should address:

The title of your project.

A description of the problem you are trying to solve including supporting facts and figures.

An explanation about why this is relevant.

The proposed intervention.

Your evaluation plan.