Please reflect on weeks 1 and 2. This can include your reaction to the materials
Please reflect on weeks 1 and 2. This can include your reaction to the materials and topics discussed in class and/or the reading and video. Feel free to tie in your reflection with how our class objectives applies to your other course work, and/or on recent pandemic issues, such as how epidemiology shall inform future decisions around when schools and universities and workplaces should return to in-person. Write your response directly in the forum. You must post one original post and reply to one post of your peers. Refer to our materials. You can include links to videos and news stories.
Week 1:
To introduce concepts related to disease transmission using epidemiologic approach to communicable diseases as a model
To define important terms related to the occurence of disease in a population
To calculate an attack rate and illustrate how to may be used to measure person-to-person transmission of disease
To describe the steps in an outbreak investigation and introduce how cross-tabulation may be used as the source.
Week 2:
To compare different measures of morbidity, including incidence rates, cumulative incidence, attack rates, prevalence, and person-time at risk.
To illustrate why incidence data are necessary for measuring risk.
To discuss the interrelationship between incidence and prevalence.
To describe limitations in defining numerators and denominators of incidence and prevalence measurements.
Reply classmate post:
”The material so far has been pretty engaging. When starting a new semester the feeling of being focused and intrigued last the beginning few classes but having the information be well-explained and practicing it together until we have it right has been very encouraging and I feel like it’s helped me be more engaged and waiting to see what’s next.I’m thankful we are covering different terminology and making sure we understand each word including the different contexts it could be used in. This is something I have been wanting to dive more into, of course, since soon we will be hearing different terms being used in the health field. My past classes rarely covered terms, professors often assume or expect us to know it all but the class is a mix of students who are all at different spots, so I appreciate that we move at a similar flow together.”