141st APHA Annual Meeting

In This section

294044
Group exercises and discussion on prevention, morbidity, mortality, adjustments

Saturday, November 2, 2013 : 11:45 AM - 2:15 PM

Dr. Joy P. Nanda, DSc, MS, MHS, MBA , Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Ret), Johns Hopkins University (Ret), Baltimore, MD
During this session, participants will discuss, analyze and interpret in groups, the concepts of prevention, morbidity, mortality, adjustments

Learning Areas:
Biostatistics, economics
Epidemiology
Program planning
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate measuring the concepts of events, diseases and deaths thru computation and interpretation Differentiate morbidity and mortality patterns with variable etiology Compare population based morbidity and mortality indices with and without adjustments

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: As a trained community and behavioral epidemiologist, I have more than three decades of extensive research and teaching experience on methods, interpretation and application of epidemiological data and program evaluation. I have taught numerous introductory, intermediate and advanced epidemiology courses at numerous public and private institutions in the U.S. for undergraduate and graduate students as well as to members of public health community. I have also been the instructor for this LI since 2005.
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.