Descriptive epidemiology allows researchers to evaluate health and disease within and between populations, identify public health planning needs, and identify health outcomes that require further investigation to establish causal mechanisms. The key questions in descriptive epidemiology are:
What is the disease or condition of interest?
Who does the disease or condition of interest affect?
Where are the populations that the disease or condition of interest affects?
When does the disease or condition of interest affect the population?
Why does the disease or condition of interest affect the population?
This assignment requires you to select a disease from the 2013 National Notifiable Infectious Disease List and describe it according to the variables of person, place, and time.
Please make sure you answer each part of the question using complete sentences and proper spelling and grammar. Make sure your answers are thorough, yet concise, and that you support your answers with at least two appropriately cited references. Wikipedia and only online references are not an acceptable reference. please use peer reviewed literature or books.