The document outlines a report structure for analyzing colon cancer, emphasizing the importance of clear section headers and specific content requirements. Key sections include defining the health disorder, analyzing distribution through quantitative measures, and providing a summation of conclusions and knowledge gaps. The document stresses the need for quality citations and discussions on host and environmental characteristics.

1. Please be sure to organize your report using section headers to
clearly indicate which part of the assignment you are addressing
(i.e. do not write in a classic essay format).
1)
Define the health disorder
: Colon Cancer
a. Clearly describe the symptoms, disease prognoses, type of
infectious agent, if applicable, significance of this disease
2)
Distribution section – this is the most important part of the
assignment!
a.
Must provide quantitative incidence, prevalence and mortality
measures to describe person, place and time aspects of the
disease’s distribution!
b. Quality of tools used (tables, graphs, maps)?
c. Information clearly cited within the body of the report and
referenced completely at the end?
d. Described host characteristics?
e. Environmental attributes discussed clearly?
f. Any temporal characteristics to the disease’s distribution?
g. Other patterns or trends?
3)
Summation:

2. a. Conclusions and summary of any current hypotheses to
explain the described distributions
b. Identification of any gaps in knowledge about the
distribution
The overall quality of writing, organization, basic “grammar”
and comprehension issues will also be considered.