Step 4: Review your work by asking yourself the questions listed below and then revise your document accordingly before final submission to ensure you capture the self-evaluation questions:

1. Have I selected and discussed 5 health indicators, making sure to include one related to an infectious disease, one related to a non-communicable disease, and one related to mortality?
2. Have I identified and written about possible limitations for each health indicator?
3. Have I discussed how national health indicator data can be applied to public health policy or programming, using my own words and understanding?
4. Is my assignment within the word limit, containing a minimum of 200 and a maximum of 400 words?

Use these questions as a guide to critically evaluate your own work, ensuring that it is comprehensive, clearly articulated, and meets the length requirements. After completing your self-assessment and revising as necessary, submit your final document to the appropriate section of the course platform.

Step 5: Submit your assignment by clicking “add a new discussion topic” below and completing the fields.

OPTIONAL Step 6: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”

Incidence and prevalence are both vitally important concepts in epidemiology and in public health but they are often confused by the media and individuals in the general public (and sometimes even by experts). How would you describe the difference to an individual with no public health or epidemiological training?

How can incidence data be useful to a public health planner who is concerned about the resources needed to treat future patients with a given disease? How can prevalence data be useful to the planner?