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Evidence-Based Public Health - Coggle Diagram
Evidence-Based Public Health
Health Problems
The Burden: The occurrence of disability and death due to a disease
The Course: How often the disease occurs, the likelihood of being present, and the symptoms/ailments
The Distribution: Where the disease is, who gets the disease, and when does it occur.
Establish a Contributory Cause
The cause is the effect at an individual level, thus meaning it occurs more frequently than normal.
The cause takes place before the effect.
Changing the cause changes the effect, such as removing or altering the cause to change the effect.
Test for a Contributory Cause
Case-Control Studies: Identify idividuals with the disease and compare them to those without the disease.
Cohort Studies: Those who may be at risk of developing the disease are monitored to see if they do indeed develop it.
Randomized Controlled Trials: Randomly assigns participants to engage in some activity that may develop the disease to see if said activity causes it.
Implementation
Primary: Preventative measures such as enacting policies, education, etc.
Secondary: Identifies and treats risk factors, hopes to lessen the impact having the disease may have.
Tertiary: Treatment for once someone already has the disease, through lessening the effect or curing it if at all possible.
Strokes in Young Adults
The article details that young adults, while having strokes significantly less on average than adults, have far greater personal and economic effects. The disabling effects of a stroke have a much more devastating effect on a younger person's life during what are their most lively years and thus its important to educate young adults on the causes and effects of a stroke. It's important to use primary treatment strategies as a tertiary treatment is not really a viable option.
Increasing Incidence of Colon and Rectal Cancers in Young Adults
In the past 30 years or so, likely due to lifestyle differences, early-onset CRC has become much more common in individuals under 50 years old. These early-onset cases are also strange in that they actually do not have much to do with family history and thus must be the result of some other cause that we do not fully know yet.