Short Essay 10
Listen to the lecture recording while scrolling through the PowerPoint slides when prompted. (The audio recording will tell you when to change the slide.)
Read the assigned readings and come up with your own interpretations.
Short essay responses should be one page, written in Microsoft Word, single-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, with 1” margins. Please upload your work as an attachment (do not type directly into the dialogue box).
The professor will provide feedback on your work within a few days of your submission, on a rolling basis throughout the semester.
How do economic structures contribute to the spread of AIDS? Furthermore, use examples from the text to describe
how gender inequality is another contributor to the spread of AIDS. Finally, what do you think about Mojola’s argument
about “transactional sex relationships?” For five extra credit points, write an additional half page responding to an extra
credit reading or at least one of the multimedia items in the Module 10 folder and explaining how this relates to the
required reading. Place the extra credit portion of your assignment in red font.
“Thick Description” of In-Depth Interview 10
Conduct an in-depth interview with someone who possesses relevant life experience and/or knowledge with regards to the module.
During the interview, your goal should be to engage your interviewee in conversation. Do not bring a list of questions to the interview, as this will make it more difficult for a natural conversation to unfold. You should have a clear idea of the type of information you would like to find out by the end of the interview, but you should allow and encourage your interviewee to reflect on and share their experiences as they wish.
You may choose to jot down key words during the interview to help jog your memory after the interview has concluded. However, you should not write complete sentences as this may become distracting to your interviewee and may disrupt the natural flow of the conversation.
After the interview has ended, write a “thick description” of your interview. This is not a direct transcript of the interview. Instead, it describes the interviewee’s gestures, tone of voice, and other elements of your interpersonal interaction while also relaying key elements of what the interviewee said.
“Thick descriptions” should be at least one page, single spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, with 1” margins. Please upload your work as a PDF attachment (do not type directly into the dialogue box).
In-depth Interview:
Interview a public health, community health, or healthcare worker whose work deals with sexually transmitted infections or a patient who has had a sexually transmitted infection. Some questions may include (but are not limited to) the context of their experience, whether or not gender inequality shapes sexually transmitted infections (and how). Be prepared to explain to them Mojola’s argument about “transactional sex relationships” and solicit their opinion.
EDAP Part 3: Causal Pies
Subsequently, students will create causal pie diagrams (at least two). Each sufficient cause should include social causes of disease. We cover causal pies in-depth during class lecture. Here is a brief review from the CDC:
“As the model indicates, a particular disease may result from a variety of different sufficient causes or pathways. For example, lung cancer may result from a sufficient cause that includes smoking as a component cause. Smoking is not a sufficient cause by itself, however, because not all smokers develop lung cancer. Neither is smoking a necessary cause, because a small fraction of lung cancer victims have never smoked. Suppose Component Cause B is smoking and Component Cause C is asbestos. Sufficient Cause I includes both smoking (B) and asbestos (C). Sufficient Cause II includes smoking without asbestos, and Sufficient Cause III includes asbestos without smoking. But because lung cancer can develop in persons who have never been exposed to either smoking or asbestos, a proper model for lung cancer would have to show at least one more Sufficient Cause Pie that does not include either component B or component C.
Note that public health action does not depend on the identification of every component cause. Disease prevention can be accomplished by blocking any single component of a sufficient cause, at least through that pathway. For example, elimination of smoking (component B) would prevent lung cancer from sufficient causes I and II, although some lung cancer would still occur through sufficient cause III.”
(See the attached graphic)
Source: Rothman KJ. Causes. Am J Epidemiol 1976;104:587–592.
Make sure that each of your two pies contain a mix of biological (e.g. genetic) and non-biological (e.g. social, cultural, political, economic, geographic) causes.
Note: This is a scaffolded assignment. Do not create a new document. Instead, add on to the document that you were working on in prior modules where you have already completed other parts of the final project. By the time you submit Part 6, your entire project will be complete.
