Epidemiology
• The MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) reports data on the 58 notifiable (reportable) diseases that are tracked by the CDC.
• You will choose a notifiable diseases and collect data on this disease from the most recent complete calendar year, calculate incidence values and graph results.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmorb.asp
U.S. population on July 1, 2009was 307,006,550
Start by choosing the YEAR and WEEK 01http://wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmorb.asp
Calculate the 4-week Totals
Calculate the Incidence Values for each 4-week period.
Incidence rate = # of new cases in the time period divided by the population size
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