Description
Select one of the following topics below and compose an essay that covers the required components. Consider your current or previous employer and provide a potential explanation for a specific health related incident you have observed. Keep in mind everything you have learned throughout this week’s readings pertaining to Epidemiologic and Toxicologic Aspects of Occupational Health and Safety. Use specific examples and scenarios in your paper and/or share knowledge about organizations you have read about or experienced firsthand. Cite any sources using correct APA format on a separate page.
Epidemiology
Occupational epidemiology
Risk factor
Prevalence
Incidence
Required Components:
Provide the following measures: incidence rate, cause-specific rate, age-specific death rate, and standardized mortality ratio. Which types of inferences can be made from prevalence and incidence?
Distinguish between descriptive and analytic approaches to occupational epidemiology. Using your own ideas, give an example of each approach.
Provide a scenario for how a descriptive epidemiologic study might lead to the prevention of an occupational illness.
Describe the key differences between associations and causes in the work environment, giving examples in your own words. Distinguish between risk factors and causal factors.
Using your own ideas, state how toxicology contributes to understanding the potential risks from toxic substances and aids in setting limits for exposures to such risks.
