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Before planning for a surveillance system, one should determine whether that particular disease really needs to be in a surveillance system. Factors that should be considered include burden, severity, transmission, public interest, preventable, and cost.

Could you give an example of a disease that needs a surveillance system? And at what…[Read more]

We have learned that there are several types of public health surveillance systems, these different surveillance activities can be integrated into the system to improve the surveillance performance. In addition to the routine passive surveillance, which additional types or activities that you would like to have to improve the performance of the…[Read more]

According to Table 7 of the paper by Choi BC. In the reading assignment, public health surveillance can be useful in many ways:
Early warning
Impact assessment
Intervention development and implementation
Intervention evaluation
Risk assessment
Research support
In your opinion, which functions that you think the surveillance system in your country…[Read more]

Discuss and reflect on what youhave learned from the motivation studies in TEDtalk.

The main objective of an experimental study is to assess whether the intervention is working well or not. There are three terms related to the outcome measure in experimental study:
1.Efficacy
2.Effectiveness
3.Efficiency
Could you give a brief explanation of these three terms? What would be the different in the study design in order to measure…[Read more]

Discuss the leadership styles Steve Job took and/or discuss your favorite leader and their styles

Pro/Con Six Leadership styles and What other styles you would like to try?

In the literature review related to your research topic, please select a publication that used either cohort or case-control study design. Then describe:
The title of the paper. (You may provide a link to access the paper)
Main objectives of the study
Main exposure variable of interest
Main outcome variable of interest
Limitations of the study

Please write a short paragraph about yourself to describe a moment where you decided to step out from your comfort zone and take a new action (5 points).

Say …

WHY did you decide to do that?

WHAT did it feel like after the event?

WHAT did you gain from this new experience? (could be good and bad)

To be fair, this is mine:

I have been…[Read more]

Which you are highly recommended to listen.

In the literature review related to your research topic, please select a publication that used cross-sectional study design. Then describe:
The title of the paper. (You may provide a link to access the paper)
Main objectives of the study
Sampling method used in the study
Limitations of the study

Please discuss with your advisor to prepare your presentation for your literature review

Discuss with advisors regarding your research project. Then post your project’s title and objective in the discussion forum. We would encourage you to provide comments or suggestions to your friend’s projects as well.

In a study to determine contact pattern in Thailand, people encouraged to use a contract tracing application over 3-month period. The researcher found that young adults had the most active contact pattern than other age groups. Please help identify confounders for this association. Please provide one confounder for each student, and please try not…[Read more]

Please provide 5 variables that you plan to collect in your research project. What are they? What are their variable types? How could you summarize them? For example:
Research Title:………………………………………………
PM2.5 level – continuous variable – summarized as mean(SD)
Underlying disease – categorical variable- summarized as proportion (prevalence)

Please watch the VDO for topic discussion.



Please watch the VDO for topic discussion.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail)—this could be the same system you mentioned in the previous topic discussion (Topic 1). Do you think that the organization appropriately managed the change or not? Think about ADKAR model that we just learned.

Please give an example of a system in your organization (either successful or fail). What are main factors that make the system successful or failure (Data, Cost, Operation, Design, and People)?

-What intervention(s) you are considering in your modelling and how it will be added to the model structure.
What are the characteristics of the intervention(s) (e.g. coverage, efficacy etc.)