What recommendations would you make to your administrator based on your findings?

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Descriptive epidemiology is used to evaluate trends in health and disease and to be able to make comparisons among the population and subgroups within countries; and to provide a basis for planning, provision, and evaluation of services. As a health officer, you have been asked to collect information to characterize and summarize tuberculosis epidemic in your state. Write a paper in which you do the following:
  1. Discuss the pattern and distribution of the disease in the population of your state as well as subgroups within the state.
  2. What recommendations would you make to your administrator based on your findings?
  3. Describe the basic types of epidemiologic study designs that are used to test hypotheses, identify associations and establish causation.
Be sure you support essay with evidence from the literature. Length: 2–3 pages, excluding title page and references.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Assessment and Grading: Your paper will be assessed based on the performance assessment rubric that is linked within the course. Review it before you begin working on the assignment. Your work should also follow these Assignment Expectations.
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