Assignment: Historical antecedents of epidemiology

For your final research paper submission, you are to complete the research paper that you have been working toward in previous units of the course (i.e., Unit I Topic Selection, Unit III Literature Review, and Unit V Research Paper).

For this submission, you will compile the work that you submitted in Units III and V into a single document, and you will add the components listed below to complete your final research paper:

a title page,

an introduction,

a brief summary of the impact of historical epidemiologic research on your topic,

ethical considerations surrounding your topic,

a brief discussion of the etiology of your topic,

a description of the elements of causality for your topic using Hill’s criteria, and

a summary.

Make certain that you integrate your previous work (submitted in Units III and V) in a sensible and organized way in order for the final research paper to flow seamlessly from one section to another. You should use section headings as a way to keep your paper visually organized.

Based on how they fit into your particular research topic, make certain that the areas below are addressed.

Describe historical antecedents of epidemiology.

Explain elements of causality and how they impacted your research.

Explain Hill’s criteria for evaluation of epidemiologic associations.

Your research paper must contain at least five scholarly references that support the argument surrounding your topic.

Your research paper must be at least six and a half pages in length (not counting the title and references pages). Adhere to APA Style when constructing this assignment, and include in-text citations and references for all sources that are used.

For the unit V bias and confounding some changes need to be done, in the document, there are notes of these changes.

See in the attachment, previous work done and articles.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.