Epidemiology - HPEX 358; Midterm Review Questions And Answers
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Epidemiology - HPEX 358; Midterm Review Questions And Answers
Epidemiology searches for associations between exposures and - Answer-health outcomes
/.Specializations that contribute to epidemiology include - Answer-sociology, history, law
/.Which of the following is not considered a use o...
Epidemiology searches for associations between exposures and - Answer-health
outcomes
/.Specializations that contribute to epidemiology include - Answer-sociology, history, law
/.Which of the following is not considered a use of epidemiology? - Answer-to provide
healthcare services to specific individuals
/.Which of the following is considered a key characteristic of epidemiology? - Answer-
distribution, population focus, quantification
/.Epidemiologic methods can be applied to which of the following public health-related
fields? - Answer-health education, healthcare administration, environmental health
/.Whether a contaminated food such as tomatoes caused an outbreak of gastrointestinal
disease is a simple example of: - Answer-a causal association
/.Variation in the occurrence of diseases and other health outcomes in populations
relates most closely to: - Answer-distribution
/.Epidemiology is an observational science that capitalizes on naturally occurring
situations. - Answer-true
/.The word "epidemic" is applied to communicable or infectious diseases only. - Answer-
false
/.For some instances, a single case of a disease represents an epidemic. - Answer-true
/.Analytic epidemiology refers to studies that are concerned with characterizing the
amount and distribution of disease or health condition within a population. - Answer-
false
/.Which of the following situations can be considered an epidemic? - Answer-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, a small number
of cases of a disease that has long been absent in an area
/.All of the followings are examples of recent epidemics except - Answer-Spanish flu
, /.Variation in the occurrence of diseases in different subgroups among a population,
with some subgroups of the populations more frequently affected than others implies to
- Answer-distribution of diseases
/.Paracelsus was one of the founders of the field of toxicology and contributed to the
concept of dose-response relationship. - Answer-true
/.Definition of epidemiology includes all of the following conditions except - Answer-
diagnosis of diseases in a population
/.Contact with a disease-causing factor is defined as - Answer-exposure
/.Name the German Physician who verified that a human disease is caused by a
specific living organism. - Answer-Robert Koch
/.Which of the following is a key characteristic of epidemiology? - Answer-quantification
/.Study of patterns, types, and causes of diseases in a population over time is an
example of - Answer-historical use of epidemiology
/.Classification of occupation is an example of - Answer-qualitative data
/.A variable for describing a characteristic of a population is called - Answer-parameter
/.A chart that shows the proportion of cases according to several categories is called a -
Answer-pie chart
/.A scale that comprises categorical data that can be ordered or ranked is a - Answer-
ordinal scale
/.Examples of continuous variables are height and weight. - Answer-true
/.Survey conducted on internet uses a random sampling method. - Answer-false
/.A chart used to display the frequency distributions for grouped categories of a
continuous variable is called a histogram. - Answer-true
/.You want to present your data showing the percentages of people in different racial
categories living in the City of Richmond. The best way for you to present this data will
be - Answer-a pie chart
/.The degree to which characteristics of the sample correspond to the characteristics of
the population from which the sample was chosen is called - Answer-
representativeness
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