Like many health departments which serve large metropolitan areas, The Summervil

Like many health departments which serve large metropolitan areas, The Summerville Health Department conducts on-going surveillance on major sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The purpose of this surveillance system is to 1) assess the status of STIs in Summerville and its cities as well as to 2) prioritize STI clinical and educational resources. Each year the health department releases a report with yearly STI trends by demographic data. But the current annual report does not demonstrate trends throughout time (just a comparison from the previous year). The need to include an additional, more comprehensive report to better serve both purposes of the system was revealed when the chief epidemiologist received a call from the adult health services (AHS) manager. The AHS manager stated that due to funding cuts decisions need to be made on where to allocated resources (clinics and staff), target testing, and awareness and education campaigns. So, the chief epidemiologist would like for two reports to be generated: a annual brief and a four year summary report. The four year data was recently finalized and cleaned and it is now your task to create the four year summary report. You’ve been a great help in providing recommendations for both a commissioner and the health director. Now you will need to prepare a report that really tests your surveillance knowledge and skills.
NOTE: the purpose of this report is to GUIDE prioritization of resources for the AHS program to better serve the community.
This report covers the following course goals:
** Assess quality of data collected from surveillance system
** Analyze and Interpret surveillance data
** Create data reports and determine data dissemination methods to best suite stakeholders
Analyze the Summerville County STI data (attached) and create a four year summary report for the years 2012-2015. You will need to submit the following:
1) final surveillance report (3-5 pages ) and a brief statement (1-2 pages) addressing the framework for communicating surveillance information including an explanation of the data analysis done (noting any errors in the data found and how resolved), presentation of data and intended manner of report dissemination.The report and explanation should be no more than 7 page in length total.
NOTE: These two documents must be submitted via Turnitin as ONE document.
2) Excel file demonstrating analysis completed. As Turnitin will only allow for ONE file to be submitted, please send your instructor your Excel file via Canvas e-mail.
Readings:
Brookmeyer, R. and Stroup, D.F. (Eds). (2004) Monitoring the Health of Populations: Statistical Principles and Methods for Public Health Surveillance. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, an Introduction to Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics (3rd Ed.). Retrieved from: https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dsepd/ss1978/index.html (Links to an external site.).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2001). Updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems: recommendations from the guidelines working group. MMWR. 2001;50 (No. RR-13):1-35. Retrieved from https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/13376 (Links to an external site.).
Garcia-Abreu, A., Halperin, W., Danel, I. (2002). Public health surveillance toolkit: A guide for busy task managers. Retrieved from http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/383611468154452352/pdf/563720WP0REPLA00Box349502B00PUBLIC0.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Lee, L.M., Teutsch, S.M., Thacker, S.B., St. Louis, M.E. (2010) Principles & Practice of Public Health Surveillance (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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Discipline: Epidemiology