National Collegiate Athletic Association Article

National Collegiate Athletic Association Article

Article Discussion 1

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In the past few modules, you have learned about different types of data sources, along with how disease is measured in populations. This discussion gives you the opportunity to see these concepts at use in the real world and discuss them with your classmates.

Choose one of the following journal articles:

(The references listed below are hyperlinked to the full text version of the articles.)

Giuliano, K. K., Baker, D., & Quinn, B. (2018). The epidemiology of nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in the United States. American Journal of Infection Control, 46(3), 322–327. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2017.09.005 (Links to an external site.)

Heavey, S. C., Delmerico, A. M., Burstein, G., Moore, C., Wieczorek, W. F., Collins, R. L., … Homish, G. G. (2018). Descriptive Epidemiology for Community-wide Naloxone Administration by Police Officers and Firefighters Responding to Opioid Overdose. Journal of Community Health, 43(2), 304–311. doi:10.1007/s10900-017-0422-8 (Links to an external site.)

Kerr, Z. Y., Putukian, M., Chang, C. J., DiStefano, L. J., Currie, D. W., Pierpoint, L. A., … Marshall, S. W. (2018). The First Decade of Web-Based Sports Injury Surveillance: Descriptive Epidemiology of Injuries in US High School Boys’ Soccer (2005–2006 Through 2013–2014) and National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Soccer (2004–2005 Through 2013–2014). Journal of Athletic Training, 53(9), 893–905. doi:10.4085/1062-6050-166-17 (Links to an external site.)

After reviewing the article that you selected, please answer the following questions:

  1. Provide a brief summary of the article. (This should include which article you selected.)
  2. What was the source of the data?
  3. What type of study was it?
  4. What were the person variables included in the article?
  5. What epidemiologic measures were used to describe the disease?
  6. As a reader, is there information that was not included that you would like to have known?
  7. Reply to two of your classmates, one who read the same article as you and one who chose a different article. Provide additional insight to their post, ask a question, or provide an opposing view. Replies must be thoughtful and substantive (more than a couple sentences). I will not give full credit for short answers.

Be sure to use proper English including full sentences in all of your discussion posts for this course.

Just Answer each question because it’s a discussion so not a page format. Question answer that’s it.