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23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 1/7 Describing outbreaks This workshop gives you an opportunity to discover some terms and tools that you should consider using for your final outbreak report. Firstly let’s find a disease to work with. So that I can limit the “borrowing of answers” I would like you to work with the disease listed, depending on the letter your surname starts with. Choose your topic based on your surname A-B: Barmah Forest C: Campylobacteriosis D-F: Dengue G: Gonococcal H: Hepatitis A I-K: Influenza L: Legionellosis M: Malaria N-P: Pertussis Q: Q-fever R: Chlamydia S: Salmonellosis T: Tuberculosis U-Z: Ross River Virus 1. You are to write a small feature article (exactly two A4 pages, no more, no less, 12 font, single line spacing, you can have a third page for any references (optional -see below), but the graph you create must be included in the first two pages) for the local newspaper on the disease that corresponds to the letter of your surname (no exceptions, you will have to do the exercise again if you pick the wrong disease!) The editor wants you to include the following (do number 2 first but don’t put it first in your report): 2. A graph showing how many cases have occurred in the previous 4 years (do not include data from this year as it may not be complete). You can get the data from: http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm Week 7: Workshop 2 Activities Week 5: Workshop 2 Describing outbreaks (This module is independent of group work) Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2 http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 2/7 (http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm) . Go to the third hyperlink “Notifications of Selected Disease by Month and Year” Find your disease from the drop down box, and graph the data. For those who have never done this before, I have added an appendix to this sheet to get you started (but please don’t hand in instructions or the appendix with your Workshop 2 report!). Under the graph put a legend (like the following for the graph I created for the appendix, but modify it for your data) e.g., Figure: Brucellosis cases in Australia from 2001 to 2004. Note the sharp increase in cases in November last year. You may just supply a basic graph, but marks are given for choice that best displays data. Note: You may not have an increase in your data, in which case your legend would say “The number of new cases remains constant all year round” or another possibility might be “An increase in case numbers can be seen during the winter months”. You may like to look at some of the other data on your disease in order to describe age groups or distribution in states of Australia (for the body of your report), but one figure is usually sufficient. 3. How will your report start? Most reports are to make the reader take notice and want to do something. Now that you have seen your graph, think about a possible way to start your piece. It maybe “Health authorities are alarmed at…” or “Although many infectious diseases do not occur as often as 50 years ago, we have failed to make any impact on the number of new cases of Disease X”. 4. In the body of the report I would like you to include the following terms: morbidity mortality reservoir mode of transmission control prevention notified cases/1000 (or use 100,000 if that looks better) Australian residents per year (Hint: See the first screenshot below and look for the dot in the circle - you can put the dot in the next circle). You do not have to use numbers to describe morbidity and mortality, you can simply provide statements about how these terms relate to your disease (you will need to do some research to see if there is any description of morbidity or mortality associated with your disease). (For the first two terms you could try a Google search, or try the IDEAS site listed in external links). http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 3/7 No references are required but the document must be in your own words and not plagiarised. Workshop 2 Objectives: 1. Write a short piece of factual reporting suitable for a science column in the popular press, such as the The Age newspaper 2. Create a graph of disease incidence and analyse the best format for communicating trends in that data 3. Format the graph and legend so that it clearly communicates a message 4. Describe common epidemiology terms in relation to the disease under investigation Marking Guidelines Workshop 2: 1. Attention to guidelines given in workshop instructions, including ability to create interest from the reader 2. Choice of graph format that best illustrates data and attention to detail for labelling 3. Use of terms (at least 4/5 listed terms in the workshop instructions must be incorporated). Example of how to graph data Say my disease is Brucellosis, then I call up the Brucellosis data (see screenshot). Note this may be a little slow to call up, be patient (I think it’s worth the wait). Once a month the data is unavailable while being uploaded so be careful, don’t leave this to the day it’s due! The next screen looks similar to this (but may have later years). 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 4/7 In this example I wanted the data from 2010–2013. Using the mouse, I pointed over 2010 so that the arrow changed into an “I” and held down the left mouse button to drag across and down so that the section of the table from 2010–2014 was highlighted in blue (see next screenshot). The left mouse button was released (the selected text should still be highlighted). On the keyboard “Ctrl” and “C” keys were pressed at the same time, the selected text was copied in cyber space to a thing called “Clipboard”. Microsoft Excel was opened and cell A2 clicked (looks like next screenshot). 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 5/7 Note: The next step may requires a bit extra for older versions of Excel. Don’t “paste” unless you are using Office 2010 or later, you need a “special paste” e.g., choose Edit from the top menu bar and then choose “Paste special” from the drop-down choices. Then pick text (see next screenshot) and OK. Then type months in row 1. Your spreadsheet should look like this: 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 6/7 To make a graph, I highlighted from A1 to M5 (as the year totals look funny in a graph, you can experiment to find out). Press the tab for Insert in the following screen shot and then select a style such as Column. In Excel 2007, select Insert (next to Home on the Menu bar) for Graph options. I have selected a simple bar graph. After you have mastered this, you should play with some of the options. You will notice a box around your graph. Click on the graph then do a 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 7/7 “Ctrl” and “C” and paste this graph to your newspaper article (word document) by doing a “Ctrl” and “V”. The basic graph is the next stage, but ask yourself: is this the clearest way to show the data graphed? Is it easy to see trends with this simple bar graph? 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 1/7 Describing outbreaks This workshop gives you an opportunity to discover some terms and tools that you should consider using for your final outbreak report. Firstly let’s find a disease to work with. So that I can limit the “borrowing of answers” I would like you to work with the disease listed, depending on the letter your surname starts with. Choose your topic based on your surname A-B: Barmah Forest C: Campylobacteriosis D-F: Dengue G: Gonococcal H: Hepatitis A I-K: Influenza L: Legionellosis M: Malaria N-P: Pertussis Q: Q-fever R: Chlamydia S: Salmonellosis T: Tuberculosis U-Z: Ross River Virus 1. You are to write a small feature article (exactly two A4 pages, no more, no less, 12 font, single line spacing, you can have a third page for any references (optional -see below), but the graph you create must be included in the first two pages) for the local newspaper on the disease that corresponds to the letter of your surname (no exceptions, you will have to do the exercise again if you pick the wrong disease!) The editor wants you to include the following (do number 2 first but don’t put it first in your report): 2. A graph showing how many cases have occurred in the previous 4 years (do not include data from this year as it may not be complete). You can get the data from: http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm Week 7: Workshop 2 Activities Week 5: Workshop 2 Describing outbreaks (This module is independent of group work) Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2 http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm 23/04/2020 Week 7: Instructions for workshop 2: Outbreak: The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease (2007) https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/70698/pages/week-7-instructions-for-workshop-2 2/7 (http://www9.health.gov.au/cda/Source/CDA-index.cfm) . Go to the third hyperlink “Notifications of Selected Disease by Month and Year” Find your disease from the drop down box, and graph the data. For those who have never done this before, I have added an appendix to this sheet to get you started (but please don’t hand in instructions or the appendix with your Workshop 2 report!). Under the graph put a legend (like the following for the graph I created for the appendix, but modify it for your data) e.g., Figure: Brucellosis cases in Australia from 2001 to 2004. Note the sharp increase in cases in November last year. You may just supply a basic graph, but marks are given for choice that best displays data. Note: You may not have an increase in your data, in which case your legend would say “The number of new cases remains constant all year round” or another possibility might be “An increase in case numbers can be seen during the winter months”. You may like to look at some of the other data on your disease in order to describe age groups or distribution in states of Australia (for the body of your report), but one figure is usually sufficient. 3. How will your report start? Most reports are to make the reader take notice and want to do something. Now