Community Module 2 Discussion

Epidemiological Studies in Your Community

Instructions:

1. Answer the following questions:
   • What are the vital statistics for your community, for example, maternal mortality rate, fetal death rate, perinatal mortality rate, infant mortality?
     • Do they vary by geographic location? By ethnicity? By socioeconomic status?
     • Where did you go in your community to find these data?
   • What kind of epidemiological studies that have been performed in your community in the past five years?
     • Do you know what kind of studies they were (descriptive, analytical, intervention)? How were they conducted? What were the results?
     • In your community, what groups or organizations are most involved in conducting epidemiological studies?
2. Your response should be 50 – 100 words.