Management

1. Using the information you can find in the U.S. Census on the Internet, identify a community and provide basic demographic information. Include age ranges, gender, and ethnicity. Describe what you learned about your selected community by looking at the census data. Describe your community in two to three paragraphs.

2. How does epidemiology contribute to the health of a community/population? Explain in two to three paragraphs how the various rates and statistics used in epidemiology help to guide health programs.

3. What are the differences between an epidemic and a pandemic? Provide examples of diseases that were pandemics in the past and diseases that health officials believe could lead to pandemics today.