natural history of crohns disease
Natural history: You are responsible for producing an individual paper discussing the prevailing view of the life course of the condition. (This is often called the “natural history” of the disease process and can be found in standard medical textbooks, academic journals/articles.). This may be used to build the Introduction/Background section of the PowerPoint presentation.
Magnitude of the health problem: In this section you are to discuss the magnitude of the health problem in the United States (or other country) and its consequences ”e.g., disability caused by the chronic disease, health care costs, etc. This, also, may be used to build the Introduction/Background section of the PowerPoint presentation.
Review of a key publication: You will be responsible for reviewing a key research publication that directly correlates to the chronic/communicable disease of your choice. Each review paper should summarize a publication, including the following:
• Rationale for the study
• The study question
• Study methodology/design
• Results
Conclusion: Finally, you are to offer your insight on what key issues that you feel are in the forefront in managing, treating, and cost of care of the chronic/communicable disease. Relevant citations of the publication under review by later papers should be incorporated in the discussion, if these are available. You can usually find these citations using PUBMED or other databases. You should use these individual review papers as the basis for the Results and Conclusions sections of the group PowerPoint presentation.
