Assignment Instructions/ Description
This discussion supports the following objective:
Analyze clinical data to identify trends and present data for healthcare decision making.
Analyze and present data for healthcare decision making (such as demonstrating quality, safety, and effectiveness of healthcare).
Identify risk factors in disease to support evidence-based medicine
You are the community relations officer for a hospital. You are responsible for preparing public statements any time there is a significant public health risk. This includes occurrences of viral and bacterial .
For your discussion,
Choose an illness (viral or bacterial) as the focus of your post.
If you were to prepare a public statement on the illness, which of the following terms would you use, and why? Briefly explain the context in which you would use each term. Note: You are not creating a formal statement, you are discussing how terminology would be used in one.
Prevalence
Incidence
Morbidity
Mortality
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Paper Format: APA