Assignment Directions:

Using the issue or disease you chose for your Week 2 – Public Health Websites Analysis assignment, create a 12- to 16-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes to summarize your findings. In your presentation:

• Explain epidemiology and its relationship to public health.
• Describe the selected issue or disease.
• Identify the underlying nature and cause of the selected issue or disease.
• Analyze the uses and effects of demographic data, surveillance data, and vital statistics in public and community health.
• Identify the demographics and effect of the selected issue or disease on the community.
• Determine if the effects cross from community to state or national levels.
• Analyze possible solutions for the selected issue or disease.
• Identify possible solutions.
• Explain how the solutions were, or might be, successful.
• Recommend additional suggestions for treatment or resolution.
• Explain how the P.E.R.I.E. model served as a guide to understand the cause.