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BBH 440 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers. What is the definition of an epidemic? - answeran health event that occurs in excess to normal expectancy What is the traditional definition of epidemiology? - answerconcerned with patterns of disease and its occurence What is the modern defi...

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What is the definition of an epidemic? - answer✔an health event that occurs in excess to normal

expectancy


What is the traditional definition of epidemiology? - answer✔concerned with patterns of disease

and its occurence


What is the modern definition of epidemiology? - answer✔distribution in disease and the study

of the related bio psychosocial facors


What does study mean in the epidemiology definition? - answer✔the methods we rely on to

observe and compare groups


What is descriptive epidemiology? - answer✔involves the characterization of the distribution of

health related events


What does descriptive epidemiology answer? - answer✔who, what, when and where


What is analytic epidemiology? - answer✔identifying and quantifying associations, testing

hypotheses, and identifying causes

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What does analytic epidemiology answer? - answer✔why and how


What is infectious disease epidemiology? - answer✔infectious disease epidemics


What is chronic disease epidemiology? - answer✔study of causal factors of chronic diseases


What is endemic mean? - answer✔the usual presence of a disease in a population


Do epidemics need to have large numbers to be considered an epidemic? - answer✔no


What is a common source epidemic? - answer✔arise from on particular source that occur rapidly


What makes a common source epi graph easily distinguishable? - answer✔rapid increase in

cases at first followed by rapid decrease


What is a point common source? - answer✔source contamination is fixed in location or time


What is an intermittent common source? - answer✔source varies by place or time


What is a continuous point source? - answer✔source contamination is continuous


What is an example of a point common source? - answer✔food illness or contaminaiton


What is an example of an intermittent common source? - answer✔pond is dumped with

chemicals every two weeks


What is an example of a continuous common source? - answer✔pond constantly dumped in

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What is a propagated epidemic? - answer✔arise from infections being transmitted from one

infected person to another


How does propagated epidemics transmit? (2) - answer✔indirect and direct


What are some examples of propagated epidemics? (3) - answer✔tuberculosis, whooping couch,

flu


What is mixed epidemics considered? - answer✔when a common source epidemic is followed by

person to person contact and the disease spreads via propagation


What is antigenic drift? - answer✔a gradual change caused by a series of mutations over time


What is antigenic shift? - answer✔an abrupt change in the surface antigen proteins creating a

new virus subtype


Are antibodies present during antigenic shift? - answer✔no, new strain


What is pandemic? - answer✔an outbreak of a disease of exceptional proportions spreading

quickly from one region to another


What are the hallmarks of a pandemic? (2) - answer✔widespread excess illness and mortality


What diseases are on the rise? - answer✔chronic


What diseases are on the decline? - answer✔infectious

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What animals are common flu mixing vessels? - answer✔pigs and birds


What is epizootic? - answer✔an epidemic of disease in an animal population


What is a reservoir? - answer✔habitat in which the agent lives, grows, and thrives


What is a portal of exit? - answer✔where the agent leaves the reservoir


What is a portal of entry? - answer✔where the pathogen enters the host


What is the host? - answer✔final link in chain of infection


What are the two ways diseases transmit? - answer✔direct and indirect


What are the two types of direct transmission? - answer✔direct contact and droplet spread


What is direct contact? - answer✔host to host contact directly


What is droplet spread contact? - answer✔aerosols produced spread it


What are the three ways in which indirect transmission occurs? - answer✔vehicles, vectors,

airborne


What are vehicles? - answer✔intermediary spread


What are some examples of vehicles? - answer✔food, water, blood


What is a fomite born vehicle? - answer✔vehicle that is an inanimate object

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