Epidemiological studies are applicable to communicable and non-communicable dise

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Epidemiological studies are applicable to communicable and non-communicable diseases. Childhood obesity is an area that is receiving more attention in public health due to the multiple morbidities that emerge as a result of this condition. Below are links to a cross-sectional study and a case-control study. Imagine that you are interested in conducting a case-control or cross-sectional study proposal of childhood obesity vs. birth weight (prenatal and early life influences). Both articles below address prenatal influences on childhood obesity and birth weight using different approaches.

Article 1: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086914

Article 2: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-9-86

Using the information in the articles choose one of the following questions to focus on in your post:

1. How would you select cases and controls for this study and how would you define exposure and outcome variables for a case-control study design? What other factors would you control for?

2. How would you design a proposal measuring the effect of birthweight on childhood obesity for a cross-sectional

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As we are observing that the problem of the obesity during the birth of the chiid is being increasing day by day which are increasing the risk of various disease from the birth of the child which include diabetes as well as the cardiovascular disorder.

So the proposal measuring have been needed to design to overome the problem of obesity and birthweight which include there should be the awarenes among the people i.e what is the obesity ? what are factors that are causing the obesity during the birth of the child ? and how to overcome this problem of the obesity? this awareness should be there among the people.

And apart from this if before the birth of the child there should be the test to be carriend out that the child is suffering from obesity or not and if yes then the proper medication should be given to both mother and child.

this effective measured will be proposed to design to overcome the problem of obesity.

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