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Post Your Introduction [WLO: 2] [CLO: 5]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read the report Monitoring and Assessing the Use of External Quality Review Organizations to Improve Services for Young Children: A Toolkit for State Medicaid AgenciesLinks to an external site..

In the first part of your discussion post, introduce yourself and include your undergraduate degree, your current major, the state where you reside, and how you believe statistics and biostatistics can improve the quality of health care and public health outcomes. Include your previous experience with Excel and healthcare research. How do you believe Excel will make your statistics learning a better experience? If you do not have healthcare research experience, summarize why you believe this course will support your future professional goal.

The summative final paper for this course is a health-related research proposal that you will create in Weeks 1 through 5 and finalize in Week 6. In the second part of your initial post, describe up to three possible research interests you are considering for your final paper. Include three different potential research or study questions you are considering for the final paper. Examples include the following:

• Patients' misconceptions of certain diseases
• Oral health effects on the heart
• Radiation treatments and patient perception
• Environmental health outcomes on mortality
• Inequities in healthcare
• Post traumatic stress disorder
• Retinoblastoma cancer in children

Include all references in APA StyleLinks to an external site., as outlined by the Writing CenterLinks to an external site.. Your initial post should be 250 words.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ introductory posts, and welcome at least three of your peers. Respond to at least one classmate with whom you have similarities and to at least one classmate who is dissimilar. Challenge your peers by asking a question that may cause them to add additional information about their responses to the initial post. Offer your peers feedback on how they might focus their topic.

Your initial post and your three response posts must be posted on three different days of the week. You are encouraged to respond to more than three peers and to post your required replies early during the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in the discussion.