Lecture exercises will supplement selected web-based lectures. The exercises will consist of a set of questions that pertain to the material presented in the lecture [or set of lectures]. The questions may be short answer in form and derived straight from the lecture(s). Alternatively, some of the exercises will require you to read a lecture or paper on an injury-related topic and answer a set of questions that relate to that paper and the lecture(s). These graded exercises are due one week after they are given out. The exercise given out on June 19 is due back by June 22.
The exercises required are listed here:
Introduction to Injury Epidemiology | |
Recognizing and Addressing Injury Risk | |
Injury Surveillance and Injury Data Sources | |
Injury Severity | |
Injury Research Designs | |
Transportation Injuries | |
Injuries from Violence | |
Natural Disasters |
This assignment will provide direct experience in conducting a narrative analysis. You will either be given a dataset on May 29, or provided with links to existing data on the Internet on May 29. You will be expected to analyze the narrative information in one of these datasets and return a short paper (2-3 pages) that outlines the method you applied in the narrative analysis and your results. The paper will be due on June 22 or before.
Two written research abstracts are required in this
course. The intended purpose of the abstracts is to give you
experience in developing research studies on injury issues.
Abstract 1:
Pick an injury topic from the list below. Notify Dr. Songer of the topic
that you have chosen by e-mail at tjs@pitt.edu. Write an abstract (1-2
pages) that outlines a proposed resesarch study and highlights the
important issues in conducting research on the injury topic.
The abstract should include the following: