ANTHRO 174 WDr. Douglas White7 Nov. 2006.ppt

Christina Zdenek ANTHRO 174 WDr. Douglas White7 Nov. 2006 Rough Draft Presentation by: Christina Zdenek’s 5 Step process to writing this paper Hypothesis General: the better a culture’s nutrition, the better immune function its people will have ? Resulting in less pathogen stress Specific: a higher consumption of fish as a local food supply in a society will result in less pathogen stress ? conversely, a higher consumption of animal husbandry will result in more pathogen stress Fishing-Contribution to Food Supply v. 7 vs.Malaria v. 1255 Research Why are these variables correlated in such a way? The “What Not to Include” Slide Thank you for your attention * * * CHRISTINA ZDENEK Step 3: Make Visual Representations of Data Step 4: Do plenty of research, using reliable sources Step 5: Bring it all together in a clear, well organized, and well written 15 pg. paper Step 1: Find what you’re interested in and form a hypothesis Step 2: Do crosstabs, checking strength of correlations, and examine alternatives Step 1 Animal Husbandry-Contribution to Food Supply v. 5 vs. Malaria v. 1255 Step 2 Step 3 MALARIA v.1255 FILARIAE v.1257 Step 3 LEISHMANIAS v.1253 TRYPANOSOMES v.1254 Step 4 So far, research has led to an understanding of disease distribution that is mainly affected by region distribution of vectors , and secondly affected by diet and nutrition. There is a lot information about how nutrition affects immune function among people in general i.e. how fish oils and omega-3 fatty acids promote good immunity in the body , but NOT how different society’s nutritional status relates to their pathogen stress. Key websites for my topic: CDC a reliable dot-gov site WHO a reputable world org. Ex. “Most forms of leishmaniasis are originally infections of small mammals ‘reservoir hosts’ , which play a major role in the epidemiology of the disease” - TDR Crosstabs [DataSet1] C:\Temp\cache\Temporary Internet Files\ Content.IE5\W5YNO92N\