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Understanding how and which exposures would have a greater impact on reducing the prevalence of the disease....

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Claudia Garcia 10/19/2021 Module #3: Individual Reflection

I would suggest to the public health agencies if they asked me which one of the exposures would have a greater impact on reducing the prevalence of the disease if it was eliminated would be people drinking water with heavy metals because based on the calculations below the number of cancer incidents are higher than among smokers. (1,000 people)(60% of the population are smokers) = 600 (1,000 people)(30% of the population drink heavy metal water) = 300

Incidence rate of cancer among smokers = (600)(33.3%) = 199.8 Incidence rate of cancer among people drinking water with heavy metals = (300)(75.4%) = 226.2

If the percentage of people drinking water with heavy metals were 10% and the prevalence of smoking remained the same then I would suggest to the public health agencies that smoking exposure had a greater impact on reducing the prevalence of the disease if it was eliminated.

(1,000 people)(60% of the population are smokers) = 600 (1,000 people)(10% of the population drink heavy metal water) = 100

Incidence rate of cancer among smokers = (600)(33.3%) = 199.8 Incidence rate of cancer among people drinking water w/ heavy metals = (100)(75.4%) = 75.4

Population attributable fraction would be the measure of association that would be most efficient in helping answer the questions because it would calculate the population disease that were to be reduced if exposure to a disease were reduced to a specific exposure scenario....