{"id":6575,"date":"2023-03-01T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/surveillance-measures-in-epidemiology\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:58:38","slug":"surveillance-measures-in-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/surveillance-measures-in-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance measures in Epidemiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Surveillance Measures in Epidemiology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Epidemiology has a variety of sub-disciplines.&nbsp;Each of these sub-disciplines has different measures they use to determine the severity or communicability of&nbsp;various diseases. The two classic measures are incidence and prevalence. However, there are other measures of disease measurement, which can include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morbidity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Incidence<\/p>\n<p><em>Cumulative Incidence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Incidence Density<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Incidence Rate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prevalence<\/p>\n<p><em>Period Prevalence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Point Prevalence<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mortality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Case Fatality Rate&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proportionate Mortality Rate<\/p>\n<p>Age Specific Death Rate<\/p>\n<p>Age-Adjusted&nbsp;Rate<\/p>\n<p><em>Direct Age Adjustment<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Indirect Age Adjustment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Years of Potential Life Lost<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outbreak Specific Calculations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>R0 (R naught or Reproductive Ratio)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attack Rate (usually used for&nbsp;foodborne&nbsp;pathogens)<\/p>\n<p>Secondary Attack Rate (used for any communicable disease to describe the percentage of secondary cases)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this discussion, you will select top 3 diseases in the U.S. and explain each on of them with minimum of 500 words each. You will need to search the&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/index.html\">Morbidity and Mortality Week Report<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/\">Emerging Infectious Disease Journal<\/a>,&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/pcd\/\">Preventing Chronic Diseases Journa<\/a>l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance Measures in Epidemiology Epidemiology has a variety of sub-disciplines.&nbsp;Each of these sub-disciplines has different measures they use to determine the severity or communicability of&nbsp;various diseases. The two classic measures are incidence and prevalence. However, there are other measures of disease measurement, which can include: Morbidity Incidence Cumulative Incidence Incidence Density Incidence Rate Prevalence Period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[275],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/6575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}