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Abstract #302107

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Activity Number: 191
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract - #302107
Title: Some Classroom Roles for Historical Health Information
Author(s): Mark C. Fulcomer*+ and Marcia M. Sass and Michael W. Holton and Jenny L. Clayton and S. David Kriska and Carla L. Hischmann
Companies: Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and Emory University and Restat Systems, Inc. and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Address: UMDNJ, West Trenton, NJ, 08628,
Keywords: health statistics ; teaching ; epidemiology ; applied statistics ; bibliographies ; discriminant functions
Abstract:

Utilizing three major sources developed earlier, this presentation highlights how historical data and bibliographies have been applied to the teaching of epidemiology, applied statistics, and other health-related courses. Two of the sources are large bibliographies, the first covering the literature related to discriminant functions up until 1978, now with over 1,000 distinct entries, and a second related primarily to infant mortality. An archive of annual health statistics reports for New Jersey that dates back to 1877 and includes over 40,000 page-images, the third source has also been incorporated in the classroom. The development of these sources provides several examples of data (e.g., time series) and disease outbreaks (e.g., smallpox, anthrax, and "consumption") directly relevant to teaching such topics as health statistics, planning, and policy. In addition, some of the examples, including the early use of colors in graphing and mapping, have applicability to other courses.

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