Compiled Body of Work in Field Epidemiology
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2019-06
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Addis Abeba University
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This document contains a two years field epidemiology training program outputs to be submitted to Addis Ababa University, School of Public Health, Department of Preventive Medicine for partial fulfillment of master's degree in Field Epidemiology. This document is organized by classifying in to seven chapters. These seven chapters are outbreak investigation one, outbreak
investigation two, surveillance data analysis, surveillance system evaluation, narrative summary of disaster situation visited, health profile description projectand epi-project thesis proposal.
Chapter one contains report of first outbreak investigation. The outbreak was rubella outbreak at General Tadesse Biru Primary School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2018. Unmatched case-control study was conducted to investigate the outbreak in which I was leading the investigation.
Chapter two is about outbreak investigation two. This outbreak was suspected chickenpox outbreak, which was occurred in Aleltu Soldier Training Center, North Shewa Zone of Oromia region. Unmatched case-control study was conducted to investigate this suspected outbreak and I was the leading this investigation.
Chapter three is about analysis of five years (2013-2017) malnutrition surveillance data of Addis Ababa City Administration. A retrospective record review data analysis was conducted. Cases and deaths were described epidemiologically and trend of cases was also seen. Incidence rate of
malnutrition and trend of cases through time was determined.
Chapter four addresses MDSR surveillance system evaluation in Addis Ababa City Administration, Ethiopia, 2018. It describes the status of the system in the city administration towards meeting its establishment objectives. System attributes including simplicity, flexibility,usefulness, stability, acceptability, representativeness, timeliness, data quality, sensitivity, cost and predictive value positive were described in regard to MDSR system.
Chapter five presents a narrative summary of disaster situation visited. The disaster situation was about Internally Displaced Populations (IDPs), which was happened in Kochere and Yirga chefe woredas found in Gedeo zone of SNNP region, Ethiopia due to Ethnic based border conflict between SNNP and Oromia regions.
Chapter six contains health profile description of woreda 05 of Nefas silk sub-city, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2018. Health and health related information were presented, which can be used for evidence based planning and effective utilization of limited resources. These data can be used to identify risk factors and prioritize public health problems to take appropriate interventions.
The last chapter (chapter seven) contains the epi-project proposal. The epi-project proposal was developed to assess predisposing factors of undernutrition in Addis Ababa city administration 2019. Unmatched case-control study will be conducted to identify the predisposing risk factors
of undernutrition in the city administration.
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