PUB015-6/STI015-6 Public Health Intelligence Epidemiological Report Assignment 1 | University of Bedfordshire

About This Assignment Brief

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding:

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principles, analytical techniques, toolkits and methods in health intelligence and their application to improving public health practice.

2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

• Critically assess and synthesise the role of public health intelligence in terms of translating evidence into public health policy through synthesising, appraising, interpreting, and communicating intelligence that measures the health status, risks, needs and health outcomes of defined populations.

Assignment Brief Discussion with Students

The assessment brief must be discussed during an in-class session with students within the first 2 weeks of the unit and be accompanied by a
screen/podcast on the BREO shell explaining the assessment, the rubric and marking criteria.

Assignment Requirements

• You will write a report on the epidemiology of a particular cause of mortality or morbidity.
• To do this, you need to first identify a suitable cause of mortality/morbidity that has been studied in one of the two data sources available for the
  assessment.
• The datasets provided are from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) or the CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in the USA.
• You should carry out a literature search using a specific search strategy to identify likely risk factors for your chosen condition and include a brief review of this literature in your report.
• You should choose risk factors that are included as variables in your chosen dataset.
• You will submit an ethical approval request that provides details of your research question, an evaluation of the scope of the problem using population health data related to the chosen topic from a source, the chosen dataset, the variables to be analysed, as well as the statistical methods chosen for the analysis of the data.
• You will perform an appropriate analysis of your chosen secondary dataset using SPSS software to identify the association of your chosen risk factors with the prevalence of mortality or morbidity that is the focus of your assignment.
•  You should compare the results of your analysis with other relevant literature such as the articles included in your literature review.
•  You need to provide a critical discussion of the strengths and limitations of the secondary data sources you have used, such as how the data was
  collected, by whom, sampling frame, sample size, inclusion/exclusion criteria, population size, missing data, data manipulation, bias, generalisability.
• You should propose evidence-based recommendations to strengthen and/or improve the current prevention and control strategies related to your
  chosen condition to reduce its impact on public health in the future.