IHP 330 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Overview For your final project, you will complete an epidemiological research study report based on a research study on a coronavirus outbreak. Throughout the course, you will complete milestone assignments that are drafts of specific sections of the final project. Because these milestone assignments are drafts of the final project, some critical elements in the rubric are identical to those in the Final Project Rubric.
In Milestone One, you will review the coronavirus outbreak research study and analyze the health issue at the core of the study. You will use the research you conducted in Module One, the research study, and the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource to help analyze the health issue. You will complete this assignment in the following steps:
- Use the case study to determine risk factors and mode of transmission.
- Use the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource to calculate incidence, prevalence, and case fatality rate and interpret odds ratios.
You will then write a draft of Section II of your final project, the epidemiological research study analysis.
Prompt To begin, review the "A Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: A Teaching Case-Study" research study and the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource provided in the module resources. Then address the following critical elements in a 1- to 2-page short paper:
II. Health Issue: In this section of your final project, you will analyze the health issue that is the focus of the research study. You will draw conclusions about the health issue by reviewing the research study, the coronavirus data tables, and your own research on the topic. a. Describe the risk factors associated with the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research. b. Describe the mode of transmission of the public health issue. Support your description with evidence from the research study and your independent research. c. Determine the incidence and prevalence of the health issue using the data from the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource to perform the appropriate calculations. Table 1 displays the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by country that were reported daily between January 21, 2020, and February 1, 2020. i. Calculate the incidence of COVID-19 in China on January 21, 2020. Assume the population of China at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic was 1.4 billion, or 1,400,000,000. ii. Calculate the prevalence of COVID-19 worldwide during the entire period from January 21, 2020, to February 1, 2020. Assume that the global population at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic was 7.821 billion, or 7,821,000,000. d. Determine the case fatality rate of the health issue using the data from the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource to perform the appropriate calculations. Table 2 displays the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in all countries each day between January 21, 2020, and January 31, 2020. i. To calculate case fatality, use the total number of deaths from Table 2 and the total number of confirmed cases from Table 1. e. Interpret the odds ratios in the Coronavirus Case Study Data Tables resource to determine the strength of association between the baseline characteristics and the disease mortality. Use the odds ratios in Table 3 for your interpretation.