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EPIDEMIOLOGY ASSIGNMENT-QUESTION AND ANSWERS Section A – Matching questions 1 and 2 are worth 2 points each; multiple choice questions 3 – 18 are each worth 1 point for a total of 20 points. For Questions 3 – 18, circle your response(s) 1. Match the term with its brief description (Writ...

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EPIDEMIOLOGY ASSIGNMENT-QUESTION AND ANSWERS

Section A – Matching questions 1 and 2 are worth 2 points each; multiple choice questions 3 – 18 are
each worth 1 point for a total of 20 points. For Questions 3 – 18, circle your response(s)

1. Match the term with its brief description (Write your response on the lines)
_______ public health C
_______ epidemiology D
_______ pathology A
_______ morbidity B

a. Study of disease
b. Related to disease or disability
c. Organized activity to prevent disease and promote health
d. Study of health and disease on a population basis

2. Match the British epidemiologist with their brief bio (Write your response on the lines)
________ William Farr D
________ John Snow B
________ Sir Richard Doll A
________ John Graunt C

a. 20th century Brit known for studies about smoking and health
b. Victorian (19th century) surgeon/ anesthesiologist turned quintessential epidemiologic
hero; known for innovative theory about the waterborne source of cholera
c. 17th century haberdasher; first to use morbidity and mortality data for demographic
and epidemiologic purposes
d. First Registrar General for national vital statistics system; “miasmaist” who was late
to adopt the contagion theory’

3. One of the fundamental premises underlying the study of epidemiology is…
a. disease, illness and ill health are randomly distributed in a population.
b. disease, illness and ill health are not randomly distributed in a population.
c. disease, illness and ill health are only randomly distributed in large populations.
d. disease, illness and ill health are very rarely distributed in large populations.

4. What is referred to as the “Epidemiologic Transition”?
a. Change from non-exposed to exposed status during a prospective study
b. Development of the study disease during follow-up
c. Generalizability of study findings to the population
d. Reduction in proportion of deaths due to infectious diseases in the first part of the
20th century

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, 5. The following are all characteristics of the prevalence of a disease except one, which
one?
a. It includes all of the existing cases of disease in a community
b. It depends on the duration of the disease process
c. It can be used to help determine the health care needs of a community
d. It is always measured over time

Unedited response from Prof Tulloch-Reid

Prevalence is affected by natural history - meaning that some persons will
recover from an illness and can become disease free, while others could die
from the disease and not be present or others continue to have the disease
so depending on the natural history of the disease incidence and duration
would not completely account for prevalence.

Prevalence is a picture of a situation at one point in time (though it may
not be acquired instantaneously eg a painting vs a picture), is affected by
disease duration (short term diseases or chronic diseases with high
mortality or chronic disease with a long pre-clinical phase are less likely
to be accounted for and chronic diseases with low mortality will have
greater representation) and as a descriptor of disease burden it can help
to determine the health needs of the community.


6. When a new treatment is developed that delays deaths but does not produce recovery
from a chronic disease, which of the following will occur.
a. Prevalence of the disease will decrease
b. Prevalence of the disease will increase
c. Incidence of the disease will decrease
d. Incidence & prevalence of the disease will decrease




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