Identify a disease of interest to you. How would you design the following types of studies to examine that disease?

Identify a disease of interest to you. How would you design the following types of studies to examine that
disease? (Clearly state your disease of interest, and use the same disease for all proposed study designs.)
Write your answers in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
▪ Cross-sectional study (9 points)
▪ Ecologic study (9 points)
▪ Case-control study (9 points)
▪ Prospective cohort study (9 points)
▪ Retrospective cohort study (9 points)
▪ Randomized controlled trial (for a treatment of the disease of interest) (9 points)
2.Module 6 covered Ethics and Public Health. Now that you have completed Modules 7-9 on Study Designs,
reflect on the importance of ethical study design. In one paragraph (minimum of 5 sentences), describe the ways
unethical study design causes the public to lose trust in the research community. Write your answers in
complete, grammatically correct sentences.