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Session: Epidemiologic Methods: Costs in Dollars and Lives
4126.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
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Epidemiologic Methods: Costs in Dollars and Lives
This session covers topics related to epidemiologic methods. Specific presentations include the use of median age at death to describe early death,modeling chronic disease incidence and mortality using linnked data, methodologic issues related to estimating disease burden and cost, estimating the cost of obesity, and data source issues related to surveillance for mild traumatic brain injury.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Evaluate the utility of median-ages-at-death as a descriptor of premature mortality 2. Understand how to model chronic disease incidnce and mortality 3. Identify alternative study designs and sampling strategies to obtain national representative estimates of dengue burden and cost of illness studies 4. articulate the strengths and weaknesses of the three different methods for determining the cost of obesity 5. Discuss the desirability of surveillance for mild traumatic brain injury.
Moderator(s):Sheryl Magzamen
12:30 PMPremature mortality and median-ages-at-death measures  [ Recorded presentation ]
James L. Wilson, PhD, Christopher J. Mansfield, PhD, Satomi Imai, PhD
12:45 PMDemographic/epidemiologic modelling for predicting and projecting the numbers of CARPs, CHD deaths and incidence in Western Australia  [ Recorded presentation ]
Haider R. Mannan, Matthew Knuiman, Professor
1:00 PMMethodological challenges for national estimation of dengue burden and cost of illness in endemic countries  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jose A. Suaya, MD, MPH, PhD, Donald S. Shepard, PhD
1:15 PMAlternative techniques for examining the cost of obesity using the 2003 Medical Panel Expenditure Survey  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jeffrey A. Rhoades, PhD, Llewellyn J. Cornelius, PhD, Barbara M. Altman, PhD
1:30 PMAssessment of emergency department visit and hospital discharge records for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury surveillance  [ Recorded presentation ]
James N. Laditka, DA, PhD, MPA, Ernest McCutcheon, MD, MPH, Lou-Ann Carter, MS, Georgette Demian, MPH, Victor Coronado, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Epidemiology
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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