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EPIB Final- All Questions With Complete SolutionsA centralized database for collection of information about
diseases such as cancer is known as a: Correct Answer Case
Registry
A cohort study was conducted to examine cigarette smoking and
the risk of oral cancer. The investigators selected exposed and
unexposed subjects so that they had exactly the same
distribution of race. This method to address confounding by race
is called... Correct Answer matching
A strength of BOTH cross-sectional and ecological studies is...
Correct Answer Good for generating hypotheses for future
studies.
A(n) _________ is a disease that is required to be reported by
physicians and other healthcare providers to government
agencies according to legal statute. Correct Answer Reportable
and notifiable disease
An attack rate is an alternative incidence rate that is used when:
Correct Answer - Describing the occurrence of food-borne
illness or infectious diseases
- For acute health-related events, e.g., acute exposures of large
groups to toxic agents
- The occurrence of disease among a population at risk increases
greatly over a short period of time
Analytical Observational studies Correct Answer ecological,
case control, cohort
, Case report vs. Case series Correct Answer Case report= 1
patient, 1 observation
Case series= several patients, similar observations
Criteria for quality of epidemiologic data Correct Answer The
availability of the data
The completeness of the data
The nature of the data
What are appropriate uses of the data?
Epidemiologic measures provide the following type of
information: Correct Answer - Strength of relationship between
exposure and disease
- Association between exposure and disease
- frequency of disease or condition
Epidemiologic Transition Correct Answer Shift from primarily
infectious and communicable diseases to chronic, degenerative
diseases.
Examples of a convenience sample Correct Answer Asking
your friends to take a survey as a part of your class project
Asking students walking out of the School of Public Health
building to take a survey
Publishing a link to a survey on the School of Public Health
website
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