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Research and describe the importance of big data in public health practice. Also describe how big data relates to your future career goal and/or possible research interest.

What is Big Data?
Large amounts of data sets that are analyzed to reveal patterns, relationships, characteristics, trends, etc
Used to predict human behaviors, such as health outcomes or disease

Where is Big Data in Health?
Every time there is a clinical point of contact
Insurance companies to predict risky patient behaviors
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Publicly available (Not necessarily free)

Examples of how big data is being used in Health:
Hospitals in Paris combined 10 years of data to predict what times to expect most patients and thus create better work shifts.
EHR system: includes patient-specific data and demographics, medical history, laboratory tests results, allergies, etc. Kaiser uses EHR across all facilities and saved $1 Billion in healthcare costs
Asthmapolis: tracks asthma attacks through GPS tracking and looks for triggers and created improved treatments for specific subgroups.
Many more…
You assignment is to answer the following questions

1) Research Big Data in the Inland Empire.

Identify a current social determinant of health that is affecting a particular community within the Inland Empire.

Example: African-American MSM, Latinx MSM, and Women of color have most recently been impacted by HIV new infections in the Coachella Valley.

Provide what was identified based on the needs of the community.

write an argumentative/ persuasive essay on “online/ distance learning.” The topic provided is broad to allow students to develop their own arguments. As such, as discussed and highlighted in class, students should not simply argue with or against online/ distance learning. Such an argument would be very broad and will be susceptible to many gaps and loopholes; therefore, students should carefully narrow down their topics and choose an appropriate argument.

The distinction between online and distance learning may be explored as the two are slightly different. This distinction may be brought up depending on the specific argument raised by the student; otherwise, students should use online learning OR distance learning throughout their essay.

Because the topic is very relevant to students and they have experienced it firsthand, I expect them to use their experience to reflect on online/ distance learning to further develop their argument. Noteworthy, however, is the fact that their experience may be too personal and opinionated.

primary and secondary sources, strategies for writing about art, and the difference between Impressionism and Expressionism.

According to Hume “reason is, and ought only to be,the slave of the passions” (p.151). Why does he say this? Do you agree with him? Why or why not?

Use each of the following sources at least once in your paper as part of your discussion of the topic of the pandemic, what it is, how it started, how the federal government has reacted to the national crisis, and what the state governments are doing as well (particularly Texas since Texas state government