DrugEpi 1-6 Other Drug Abuse Surveillance Systems Module 1 Overview Context Content Area: Descriptive Epidemiology & Surveillance Essential Question (General):

DrugEpi 1-6 Other Drug Abuse Surveillance Systems

Module 1 OverviewContext

Content Area: Descriptive Epidemiology & SurveillanceEssential Question (General): How are health-related states or events distributed?Essential Question (Drug Abuse Specific): How is drug abuse distributed?Enduring Epidemiological Understanding: The frequency and distribution of health-related states or events in a population can be determined by systematically collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.

Synopsis In Module 1, students explore how to describe the distribution of health-related states or events. Students begin to uncover and develop the following epidemiological concepts and skills: observing groups of people, counting, the value of a denominator, a case definition, a representative sample, and creating circumstances that encourage truthful responses and protect confidentiality.

Lesson 1-1: Counting and RatesLesson 1-2: Introduction to SurveillanceLesson 1-3: Counting/Describing HIV / AIDS Lesson 1-4: Counting High School Marijuana Use Lesson 1-5: National Survey on Drug Use and Health Lesson 1-6: Other Drug Abuse Surveillance Systems


Module 1 - Descriptive Epidemiology and Surveillance

Lesson 1-6 Other Drug Abuse Surveillance Systems

Content

• Overview of several other drug surveillance systems• Study of other drug surveillance systems, using as a model the five main

questions to consider in planning / evaluating such a system (as described in Lesson 1-4 and exemplified for NSDUH in Lesson 1-5)

Big Ideas

• There are several other surveillance systems that address drug use / abuse

• The systems have differences and similarities regarding the five main considerations

• Considering all the efforts at surveillance, it is evident that drug use / abuse continues to be a public health issue of highest priority

This project is supported by a Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award, Grant Number 1R24DA016357-01, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse,

National Institutes of Health.


1. How is this disease distributed?

Health-related conditions and behaviors are not distributed uniformly in a population. They have unique distributions that can be described by how they are distributed in terms of person, place, and time.

2. What hypotheses might explain the distribution of disease?

Clues for formulating hypotheses can be found by observing the way a health-related condition or behavior is distributed in a population.

3. Is there an association between the hypothesized cause and the disease?

Causal hypotheses can be tested by observing exposures and diseases of people as they go about their daily lives. Information from these observational studies can be used to make and compare rates and identify associations.

4. Is the association causal?

Causation is only one explanation for an association between an exposure and a disease. Because observational studies are complicated by factors not controlled by the observer, other explanations also must be considered.

5. What should be done when preventable causes of disease are found?

Policy decisions are based on more than the scientific evidence. Because of competing values - social, economic, ethical, environmental, cultural, and political factors may also be considered.

Essential Questions Enduring Understandings

Where are we?


To understand something as a specific instance of a more

general case … is to have learned not only a specific thing but also a model for understanding

other things like it that one may encounter.

J. Bruner, The Process of Education, 1960

Understanding


Understanding

Questions Addressed

Got It Getting It Will Get It Soon

What question(s) are used to survey

marijuana use?

Question(s) clearly described

Question(s) partially described

Question(s) described poorly or not described

How is the sampling

carried out?

Sampling clearly described

Some featuresof samplingdescribed

Sampling inadequately

described

What are the data collection

methods?

Methods described and critiqued

Methods described but not critiqued

Methods poorly described

What is done to ensure accuracy?

At least twoquality methods

described

One quality method described

No quality methodclearly described

What are the limitations?

At least three pertinent points

noted

Two pertinent points noted

One or no pertinent points

noted

meekerd

In the teacher note....the comma after the word "survey" in the second sentence may be removed.The comma after the word "class" in the last sentence may be removed and the word "and" may be inserted before the word "assignment".Also, to make the sentence flow better, since the first verb is "dividing", "format" should change to "formatting" and "assignment" should change to "assigning"


“… a model for understanding other things like it ….”

Drug Abuse Warning Network

Monitoring the Future Survey

Youth Health Risk Behavior Survey

College Health Risk Behavior Survey

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs






















































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European School Survey on Alcohol & Other Drugs


Assignments

meekerd

In Teacher Note....instead of the word "was", replace with "want"?



Question Critique

1. What question(s) were asked to determine the current number of marijuana users?

2. What is the surveillance system sampling frame? How is the sample selected?

3. What mode of data collection is used?

4. What steps are taken to increase the likelihood that the question(s) would be answered accurately?

5. What are the limitations of the surveillance system?

Surveillance System Name ______________________________________



Surveillance System Start by Searching the Internet by

Title of Surveillance System . . . here are some possible destinations

1. Drug Abuse Warning Network

https://dawninfo.samhsa.gov

2. Monitoring the Future Survey

http://www.monitoringthefuture.org

3. Youth Health Risk Behavior Survey

http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm

4. College Health Risk Behavior Survey

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049859.htm

5. European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

http://www.espad.org

Surveillance System Name ______________________________________


Big Ideas in this Lesson (1-6)

• There are several other surveillance systems that address drug use / abuse

• The systems have differences and similarities regarding the five main considerations

• Considering all the efforts at surveillance, it is evident that drug use / abuse continues to be a public health issue of highest priority

This project is supported by a Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award, Grant Number 1R24DA016357-01, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse,

National Institutes of Health.

Re-Cap


1. How is this disease distributed?

Health-related conditions and behaviors are not distributed uniformly in a population. They have unique distributions that can be described by how they are distributed in terms of person, place, and time.

2. What hypotheses might explain the distribution of disease?

Clues for formulating hypotheses can be found by observing the way a health-related condition or behavior is distributed in a population.

3. Is there an association between the hypothesized cause and the disease?

Causal hypotheses can be tested by observing exposures and diseases of people as they go about their daily lives. Information from these observational studies can be used to make and compare rates and identify associations.

4. Is the association causal?

Causation is only one explanation for an association between an exposure and a disease. Because observational studies are complicated by factors not controlled by the observer, other explanations also must be considered.

5. What should be done when preventable causes of disease are found?

Policy decisions are based on more than the scientific evidence. Because of competing values - social, economic, ethical, environmental, cultural, and political factors may also be considered.

Essential Questions Enduring Understandings

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