271600 Screening and prognosis as focus of epidemiological tools for a healthy community, reliability, validity, person years

Saturday, October 27, 2012 : 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Dr. Joy P. Nanda, DSc, MS, MHS, MBA , Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Ret), Johns Hopkins University (Ret), Baltimore, MD
During this session, examples from actual public health programs and simulated screening tests will be discussed. Measures and computation methods for computing different types of reliability and validity will be demonstrated. Based on participants' experience with screening programs in their communities, this session will discuss the risks and benefits of community, school and health care setting based screening programs.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss components of screening and prognosis in a population 2. Analyze validity components of a screening tool 3. Differentiate types of reliability and their measurement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have extensive training and teaching experience in the content and have taught this LI in the past
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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