A bullet style outline using a standard hierarchical format and a working bibliography containing a minimum of seven references from peer reviewed journals and appropriate government websites.
An outline should have:
First order point indicated by Roman numeral. Second order points denoted by letters;
Arabic numerals used for tertiary points and so forth. In text citations are sequential in order of use and of superscript format. The working bibliography list must be written consistent with AMA style.
Once you have sufficiently researched your topic, develop the following points in an outline format:
Define the problem (nature, extent, significance, etc.).
Describe the agent.
Summarize these data on the distribution of the selected health problem according to the following factors using tables, graphs, or other illustrations whenever possible:
Host characteristics
Environmental attributes
Social and economic factors
Cyclic
Any additional characteristic that contributes to an epidemiologic description of the disease
Critically appraise the data as a whole; consult primary sources and important original papers.
For this assignment, you are required to provide at least 8-10 referenced sources (for the final presentation, you are required to have between 10-15 refereced sources). Sources should be published within the past ten years. Sources should be from governmental, peer-reviewed literature, or non-governmental (NGO) publications intended for a professional audience. The sources should exclude newspapers, lay magazines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, Wikipedia, Web-M, or non-refereed Internet sources intended for the lay public. Sources of data that you should consider using in your exploration may include: