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HPEX 358 Questions with Correct AnswersUsing health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient
probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health
response is known as: Correct Answer-syndromic surveillance
The adoption of policies, laws, and programs that are supported by
empirical data refers to: Correct Answer-evidence-based public health
The ability of a screening test to identify correctly all screened
individuals who actually have the disease refers to the test's: Correct
Answer-specificity
A centralized database for collection of information about diseases such
as cancer is known as a: Correct Answer-disease registries
Limitation of clinical data for epidemiologic research is: Correct
Answer-- incomplete population coverage
- highly selective nature of the data
- limited availability of the data
Death certificate data in the United States include which of the
following? Correct Answer-- demographic characteristics
- data and place of death
- cause of death
, Studies of the effects of exposure to teratogens have used data from:
Correct Answer-birth certificates
The ability of a test to identify only nondiseased individuals who
actually do not have the disease refers to the test's: Correct Answer-
specificity
The probability that an event will occur—an individual will become ill
or die within a stated period of time or by a certain age—is known as:
Correct Answer-risk
The resistance of an entire community to an infectious agent as a result
of the immunity of a large proportion of individuals in that community
to the agent is known as: Correct Answer-herd immunity
Which of the following is a key characteristic of epidemiology?
- treatment
- counseling
- quantification
- diagnosis Correct Answer-quantification
Which of the following situations can be considered an epidemic?
- The number of cases of a disease in an area clearly more than what is
normally expected.
- A single case of an infectious disease that was not previously found in
an area.
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