Cohort Follow-up Studies: Cardiovascular Disease
Description
To complete this assignment, use the Internet and Strayer databases and recall your readings in Chapter 11 of Introduction to Epidemiology and Chapter 7 of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice.
Write a 5–6 page paper in which you do the following:
1. Through cohort study designs and other evidence-based management studies, identify the major causes of cardiovascular disease and analyze the key steps, including current medications, used to address the disease.
2. Develop at least five leading questions that may be posed to the local health department in regard to mitigating the proliferation of the disease. Provide a sound rationale for raising these questions.
3. Based on the five questions developed in Question 2, provide a rudimentary protocol to disseminate this information to local community leaders.
4. Recommend six steps that may be given to current or previous place of employment to prevent the proliferation of CVD. Provide support for recommendations.
Use at least six peer-reviewed academic resources in this assignment. These must come from journal sources. Note: Fact Sheets, Wikipedia, and nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources.
