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by Infinity Flat » February 27th, 2014, 4:48 pm
Flavorflav wrote:Infinity Flat wrote: I'd recommend making a table including basic information on a lot of the common diseases, namely symptoms, mode of transmission, and type (bacteria/virus etc.). When the topic was foodborne I also included some more in depth info on each of those such as gram+/-, method of treatment etc. but since that's not the focus now you (hopefully) shouldn't have to worry about it. However, I would recommend being familiar with lab practice in general, e.g. what the gram test is etc.
Charts of diseases were a very good idea for foodborne, but much less relevant for environmental health. I would recommend devoting some space to measures of environmental quality, such as AQI, PM10, PM 2.5 etc.
I agree, but I'd still suggest having some rudimentary disease tables (as described in first sentence) since many tests ask for that kind of information, regardless of whether it's appropriate or not. As for the measures of environmental quality, I think it's definitely very important to have some reference as to what the relevant terms mean, but I doubt it would be that helpful to have too many specific values of what counts as low/high quality.
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