Do a lot of people in your neighborhood all seem to have the same sickness? Are people concerned about high rates of cancer? Your community may want to explore the possibility of a disease cluster, which happens when there is a higher number of cases of disease than expected.
When communities hear about cases of disease in their neighborhood, they are rightfully concerned. However, the results of investigations by the health department often find no evidence of a cluster. This course will help you understand what a disease cluster is and how it is studied. The goal is to empower community (or citizen) scientists, and to help build better relationships between communities and health officials.
RC
A totally magnificent, intriguing, and enjoyable course that I would recommend to anyone interested in disease/epidemiology studies.
AA
It was really helpful and beneficial to understand how important it is to identify disease clusters in my community being a future health care worker.
NL
One of the best courses I take ony Coursera. The teachings are high standard with very interesting topics you could learn from.
ZN
I have learned a lot of various terms and techniques that may help me in my career within this field..
JS
It was great learning the fundamentals of disease cluster investigation and I really enjoyed the case studies.
CT
This is a supplimental course to my degree, nursing. This is where I incorporate public health to community health nursing, and in the future, medicine.
DE
this course gives a wide scope of what it takes to manage a disease as well as the job of a public health worker in the field. wonderful time spent
NR
Wonderful Course. I learned lots, and the case studies kept it interesting. Great idea for final project.
MH
Very interesting course and hopefully the learning outcome will work for my professional career ahead.
HM
The course is beneficial to those who want to get acquainted with disease clusters definitions and investigation mechanisms and study case examples, really very helpful.
AS
Very informative. The content was good, the delivery was easy to follow and the tests help to reinforce.
NM
Course content is well explained in a simple manner that makes it easy to understand. Moreover, the content is very key for any public health professional. I am glad I took this course!
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Disease Clusters taught me quite a bit of new information in regard to conducting a disease cluster investigation. I have deducted two stars from my overall rating of the class. The first star was deducted because there was an inordinate amount of repetition. The second star was deducted because there is a student-graded assignment. Students have not been trained to provide fair and through feedback on assignments. Indeed, many are trolls while others don't even understand what they are reading. On this assignment, my paper was marked as having insufficient words by one student grader while the other student grader marked it as having sufficient word length. I just went through and counted the words. I did indeed have sufficient words, just as I thought originally. As a compromise, Coursera gave me half-credit for word count. Coursera needs to base grades on tests/quizzes, unless a teacher is grading assignments.
Helpful and Informative. This course is highly recommended for people who are working in the healthcare sector. As a student, I've found this course personally interesting.
Excellent course. I really enjoyed the explanation and examples. I really loved the field of Public Health and this was one of the better courses I have taken.
Course content is well explained in a simple manner that makes it easy to understand. Moreover, the content is very key for any public health professional. I am glad I took this course!
It's new experience and knowledge to me. Thank you very much
Very interesting and instructive, I learned many new things.
One of the weaker courses I have taken on Coursera.
I feel that I learned a lot about structuring a plan from the beginning stages of forming a goal objective, to collecting data, harnessing community input and actions, external sources that can fill in the foundation data on the community and keeping an open mind so that you're not blind to data that would disprove your hypotheses.
This course is really challenging for me, and it really gave me a new knowledge about public health which in this case are disease clusters. Thank you to John Hopkins University, lecturers and Coursera for making this a free limited certified course. I really appreciate my time and enjoy the whole course.
This course (Disease Clusters) was comprehensive and practical in todays world. It will assist me with identifying disease clusters due to the noted process of deductive reasoning while being unbias. Thank you for providing me with this pertinent information.
Brilliant course, very eye-opening. I found myself thinking differently about disease and its prevalence in the community in my area. A great addition to my undergraduate studies as it widens my perspective on things.
The peer review assignment takes a little while to get graded because there aren't that many people enrolled, otherwise, it's a great class with case study lectures that showcase disease clusters.
The course is beneficial to those who want to get acquainted with disease clusters definitions and investigation mechanisms and study case examples, really very helpful.
Very informative. I am really thankful for helping me get more educated and learn/become aware about issues that could affect my health as well as that of my community.
This course can be viewed as an guidance of epidemiological parcitice performed by anyone who is conccernd about certain exposure's potential influence on a population.
Excellent course, I have learned so much in this course, it was a joy to do it. Excellent quizzes and peer assessed assignment was great. Thank you so much .
This is a supplimental course to my degree, nursing. This is where I incorporate public health to community health nursing, and in the future, medicine.
A totally magnificent, intriguing, and enjoyable course that I would recommend to anyone interested in disease/epidemiology studies.
This was a very enlightening study and gave me a better understanding of the complexity in every Disease Cluster investigation.
One of the best courses I take ony Coursera. The teachings are high standard with very interesting topics you could learn from.