Part 1: Write a descriptive epidemiological analysis of the following diseases: Lyme disease or Malaria. Describe the basic epidemiological patterns of this health condition by person, place, and time.
The bacterial infection called Lyme disease is spread by deer ticks that are infected with a spiral shaped bacterium called Borrelia Burgdorferi. This disease first occurred in Lyme, Connecticut in 1975, which is why it is named Lyme disease. The ticks are called deer ticks because they normally feed on wild deer. However, deer are not the only animals who carry the ticks. Field mice, raccoons, opossums, skunks, weasels, foxes, shrews, moles, chipmunks, squirrels, and horses are some other animals that also carry them. Most of these animals have
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In the case of HIV/AIDS, experimental can be used to determine the frequency of the disease by taking a group of patients with HIV/AIDS, and they receive the control cure. In most cases a placebo treatment if preferable in the control group but in cases where accepted treatment is required it is not ethical to use a placebo. (Pappas, Rex, Lee, Hamill, Larsen, Powderly, & Horowitz, 2003). Then lastly the control groups are followed for a certain amount of time, and the appropriate measurement is taken to show the results of each group. 2.Under what conditions will you conduct a case-control study as opposed to a cohort study?
Conditions under which a case-control study is conducted include when there is a short period of time to carry out a research concerning a disease. (Heit, Silverstein, Mohr, Petterson, O'Fallon & Melton, 2000). A case-control study does not require as much time as a cohort study does. A case-control study can be used when a researcher needs to investigate a rare disease like when the relationship between the risk factor and the disease is unknown to people. Also, less expert is needed for showing a connecting relationship in case-control studies as compared to cohort studies which tend to be preferred.
In conclusion, descriptive epidemiological analysis, observational epidemiology, and experimental epidemiology are all very important when determining an occurrence and rate of a