This week you were introduced to three complex theories that are used to advocate for a cause and effect relationship between exposures and diseases. These three models of cause and effect are:

? Hill’s Criteria for Causation

? Rothman’s Pie Model

? Web of Causation

Each of these models can be worked for a specific exposure and disease relationship to make an argument for a causal relationship. In this week’s discussion, you are going to select a specific cause and effect model and apply it to a disease of your choice. Please note that you will have to be specific. Remember, epidemiology is a quantitative discipline. If you are going to talk about strengths of association you are going to have to discuss the results sections of the articles that you are reading.

I’m working on a public health discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

1) You are having trouble feeding your family week-to-week and need to find additional food sources.

2) You believe that a significant water pipe on public property has broken and flooding will occur soon in your area.

3) A neighbor is putting up a large shed in his/her back yard but you do not think it is properly permitted and will cause a safety hazard if not properly built.

4) You have a child who is partially blind and you need assistance finding special resources including schooling options.

5) You believe you were recently exposed to a person with tuberculosis and need information on what to do to follow up on the situation. 

The assessment will be based on the case of a specific patient with a specific condition, disease, or disorder. Think about an experience you have had treating a patient with a condition, disease, or disorder that interests you, or one of the cases presented in the Vila Health: Concept Maps as Diagnostic Tools media simulation.

Develop a concept map and a short narrative that supports and further explains how the concept map is constructed. You may choose to use the Concept Map Template as a starting point for your concept map, but are not required to do so. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your evidence-based plan addresses all of them.

Health Insurance Fraud and Abuse (110 points)

Health insurance fraud is a problem globally, and Saudi Arabia is not immune. Assume you have been tasked with presenting this problem to your healthcare organization so employees can act appropriately when processing health insurance claims. Be sure to address:

• cover slide
• Introduction
• Actions that would be considered fraudulent;
• Key indicators that fraud is present;
• The impact of fraud on the medical community, health insurance companies, and Saudi Arabia; and
• How to report health insurance fraud and penalties for those that participate in such behavior.
• conclusion
• references 

Your presentation should meet the following structural requirements:

• Be organized, using professional themes and transitions.
• Consist of 9 slides, plus the title and reference slides.
• Each slide must provide detailed speaker’s notes—a minimum of 100 words. Notes must draw from and cite relevant reference materials.

   

Choose   one of the current public health issues in Saudi Arabia, answer the following   questions in tri-fold brochure:
 

Define the   health problem with some details (medical/clinical background)?

Identify the   magnitude of the problem on the society such as the incidence and prevalence   and other epidemiological data?

Find data on   the population characteristics who were affected by the health problem, such   as distribution of age categories, income levels, educational levels, and   occupation distribution within a community etc…

 

What are the   causes or risk factors leading to this problem? (factors, conditions,   situations, or events that in some way contribute to the health problem). You   may use causal theory as it is going very helpful here.

 

Conclude your   brochure with plan a health program that is going to prevent/reduce this   health problem.