Find an article on epidemiology in the news that was published in the past 3 months. The article should not be from a professional source; instead, it needs to be a source accessible to and written for a lay audience.
Sources can include but are not limited to online magazines, online newspapers, and health news websites. Make sure that the article represents an epidemiological study and not another type of public health study.
For this paper,
- Briefly describe the research and discuss how this article represents an epidemiological study.
- Why is this an epidemiological study and not another type of health research?
- What have you discovered about the current practice of epidemiology from reading this article? Then, using information in the Learning Resources and other scholarly sources,
- Discuss the connections you see between your current study and the historical development of epidemiology. How has the past informed how the current study was conducted? Include connections to at least one historical epidemiological study or figure.
Make sure to include the article's URL as a reference in your initial posting.