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Objective: To present results and discuss them with a view to making recommendations for the workplace


    Hand in by Monday July 26th

 

You will need do some more analysis of your data based on inputs you received from the lecturer marking your project as well as colleagues when you presented to them in Block 6.  You now want to re-present your results and discuss them critically and make recommendations to those at the affected workplace about your results and how they should be applied to improving prevention at the workplace. Discuss the descriptive findings and also any associations of health outcomes with exposures.  In the latter case apply Bradford Hill criteria for causality and discuss the limitations of your study in terms of selection bias, information bias and confounding bias.  You are allowed to speculate somewhat on the meaning of your results.  Discuss the implementation of your findings and your recommendations for preventing injury and illness or to promote better occupational health at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.  You should then have a near-final piece of work to present to your colleagues in Block 7 where you will obtain final critical input before you finalise your project for final presentation and hand in in Block 8 just before the final examinations.

    

 

Learning activities:   

 

      FURTHER GUIDANCE   ON HOW RESULTS CAN BE DISCUSSED

EXAMPLE 1:  LOOK AT THE DISCUSSION  SECTION  OF THIS PAPER ON THE  NERVOUS SYSTEM EFFECTS OF OCCUPATIONAL  MANGANESE EXPOSURE IN SOUTH AFRICAN SMELTER WORKERS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF COMPLEX RESULTS IN A SELF-CRITICAL MANNER LOOKING FOR LIKELY EXPLANATIONS AND DISCUSSING STUDY LIMITATIONS.  

EXAMPLE 2:  LOOK  AT THE DISCUSSION  SECTION  OF A COMPANION PAPER LOOKING AT BIOMARKERS OF MANGANESE EXPOSURE IN THE SAME POPULATION WHERE AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO APPLY THE RESULTS TO HEALTH SURVEILLANCE PRACTICES.

 

 

 

 

References:

 Section B.  Epidemiological research methods and protocol development.  In "Epidemiology:  A manual for South Africa."  Eds Katzenellenbogen JM, Jubert G, Abdool Karim SS.  Oxford University Press, Cape Town 1997, pages 49-100.

Evaluation: 

Steps 1 through 6 will count 3 marks each (3x6 = 18), the final report 3 marks, and the final presentation oral 3 marks. This gives a total of 24 marks.

Marks will be allocated as follows:

3 = Complete, 2 = Progress, 1 = Markedly incomplete, 0 = no hand-in

                                                                                                                      


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