▪ What are the risk factors for this disease or public health concern?
▪ Consider the epidemiologic triangle / triad, or
▪ Consider the causal pie model (necessary cause and other component causes)
▪ What is the disease ‘life cycle’?
▪ Exposure
▪ Pathologic or biological changes (sub clinical disease stage)
▪ How diagnosed
▪ Treatment/ management
▪ Outcome/s – recovery, disability (morbidity), death (mortality)
▪ What available information source would you use to obtain national (US) morbidity and mortality statistics for this disease?
▪ Describe the source
▪ Give full name & web link; is it credible and how do you know?
▪ Provide an overview of this source – what information does it provide in general?
▪ Would you consider an additional source? If yes, provide the same information requested in the previous two bullets.
