Descriptive Statistics in the Health Industry

You have been recently hired as an Epidemiological Research Assistant at Duval County Health Department in Florida. It is only day 1 on the job and you have been asked to develop a presentation for the Duval County Commissioners describing the health disparity of Childhood Obesity within your community.

In your report, you are asked to summarize the demographic information about the population, as well as summarize Childhood Obesity. The Duval County Commissioners ask that you present your findings in a PowerPoint® presentation.

In statistics or epidemiology, when you are asked to summarize an issue, this means that you must do so by using quantitative information. For this Assignment, please summarize by using only descriptive statistics. In order to procure this information, you will need to access databases supported by Florida’s Public Health Department, CDC, CMS, etc.

Throughout your presentation, you must appropriately evaluate the effectiveness of descriptive statistics in summarizing the demographics of the population and the health disparity. Provide contextual information where appropriate.

Requirements

• Presentation is 10–12 slides in length.
• Include detailed speaker’s notes with each slide (25 to 50 words). The majority of the speaker’s notes should be in your own words.
• The slides appear uncluttered.
• Visual representations of data are used to summarize descriptive statistics of demographic information.
• Visual representations of data are used to summarize descriptive statistics of the health disparity.
• Descriptive statistics are evaluated for effectiveness. Contextual information is provided.