The Epidemiology Backgrounds provide the teacher with a primer about the epidemiological concepts addressed in the five modules of Detectives in the Classroom.
Embedded in the Epidemiology Backgrounds are synopses of the investigations that explain how each investigation contributes to teaching students how to answer an essential question.
Module |
Essential Question |
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| 1 |
How is this disease distributed and what hypotheses might explain that distribution? |
| 2 |
Is there an association between the hypothesized
cause |
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and the disease? |
| 3 |
Is the association causal? |
| 4 |
What should individuals and society do when preventable
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causes of disease are found? |
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Did the disease prevention strategy work? |
