Trepanation - correct answer ✔✔This is done to release evil spirits dwelling within the person.
Total Fertility Rate - correct answer ✔✔This refers to the number of live births per woman completing
her reproductive life
Hippocrates - correct answer ✔✔The father of medicine and contributed largely to the
"professionalization" of medicine.
Epidemic - correct answer ✔✔SARS outbreak in china
Census - correct answer ✔✔It is the counting of data gathered from the entire population. It is regularly
occurring and official count of the human population of a certain local administrative unit.
Girolamo Fracastoro - correct answer ✔✔An Italian doctor and poet, used epidemiologic method of
reasoning expressed in his book (De Res Contagiosa) and stated that disease results from specific
contagious or seeds of disease.
Diversity - correct answer ✔✔"Communities within a community"
Endemic - correct answer ✔✔Constant or habitual presence of a disease/agent in a given place
Secondary Care - correct answer ✔✔This level of healthcare is provided by medical specialists and other
professionals to whom a primary care professional has referred to.
The Epidemiologic Triangle - correct answer ✔✔It implies that each of the three (3) factors must be
analyzed and understood for comprehension and predictions of patterns of a disease.
, Joint Action - correct answer ✔✔This core element refers to "source of community cohesion and
identity"
a.) Only the first statement is correct - correct answer ✔✔Human Ecology is an interdisciplinary applied
field that uses a holistic approach to help people solve problems and enhance human potential within
their near environments. Also, ecology is the statistical study of all populations.
a.) Only the first statement is correct
b.) Only the second statement is correct
c.) Both statements are correct
d.) Neither of the statement is correct
General Fertility Rate - correct answer ✔✔This refers to the annual number of live births per 1000
women of child bearing age
d.) Study the emerging future and diagnosis of the disease - correct answer ✔✔The following are the
objectives of epidemiology, except:
a.) To identify the etiology or the cause of a disease and the risk factors - factors that increase the
person's risk for a disease
b.) Determine the extent of disease found in the community.
c.) Evaluate new preventive and therapeutic measures and new modes of health care delivery
d.) Study the emerging future and diagnosis of the disease.
b.) Dengue - correct answer ✔✔The following are NOTIFIABLE DISEASES or EVENTS REPORTED
IMMEDIATELY (must be reported within 24 hours) except:
a.) Measles
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