HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attributable Risk, Gingivitis, Playtime

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSCI 130
• Professor: Kate Tairyan

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Assignment: describe magnitude of problem, etiology, rates, disability rates, mortality rates, look at possible contributory factors or causes for that problem identify people who are affected, at risk population. Implementation- how to get it done? does the problem you chose have randomized trials done? evidence is needed to establish the contributory cause and recommending actions or interventions increasing price of cigarettes, will that have an affect? intervention. We should be able to show that the people involved in the program has higher change of quitting smoking than people not involved in it (group associations) We should be able to show that those who quit, quit after the program started (cause precedes effect) Relevance, efficacy, and effectiveness how big is the desired outcome (magnitude of impact) How much of the disease or death could be potentially removed. Small or moderate impact + large cost topics: thecommunityguide. org putting recommendations into practice= implementation.