2024/2025 Epidemiology Test 2 | Answered with complete solutions
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2024/2025 Epidemiology Test 2 | Answered with complete solutions Studies of nativity and migration have reported that: Some migrants have inadequate immunization status with respect to vaccine-preventable diseases According to classic studies, age-standardized morbidity rates in the United State...
Studies of nativity and migration have reported that:
Some migrants have inadequate immunization status with respect to vaccine-
preventable diseases
According to classic studies, age-standardized morbidity rates in the United States for
acute conditions, chronic conditions, and disability due to acute conditions show the
following sex differences:
Rates for females are higher than rates for males
A null hypothesis is most similar to which of the following?
Negative Declaration
High rates of mortality from hypertension found among African Americans may be due
to:
Dietary factors
Exposure to stress
Lack of social support
Obesity
All of the above
Cyclic variations in the occurrence of disease may reflect:
Changes in exposure to infectious agents
Changes in the risk-taking behavior of persons
Changes in temporary stressors
Endogenous biologic factors
All of the above
Health phenomena may show cyclic variations in a person's response to temporary
stressors.
True
Descriptive epidemiology characterizes the amount and distribution of disease within a
population and enables the researcher to:
Generate testable hypotheses regarding etiology and evaluate trends in health and
disease within a population
, Marital status is an important descriptive variable because it is theorized to be a
selective and a protective factor in health
True
Race and ethnicity tend to overlap with nativity and religion.
True
Which of the following statements most accurately expresses the downward-drift
hypothesis for schizophrenia?
The illness leads to the clustering of psychosis in the impoverished areas of a city.
Large international variations in rates of infectious and communicable diseases as well
as other conditions are most likely explained by:
Differences in climate
Differences in cultural factors
National dietary habits
Access to health care
All of the above
Reasons for gender differences in mortality may include:
Greater frequency of smoking among men
Which of Mill's four canons suggests that there is an association between frequency of
disease and the potency of a causative factor?
Concominant variation
The three categories of descriptive epidemiologic variables are person, place, and time.
True
Socioeconomic status and migration history appear to be important influences in health
disparities among racial groups.
True
Socioeconomic status is an example of a place variable.
False
Which of the following statements is NOT true of descriptive epidemiology?
Descriptive epidemiology allows casual inference from descriptive data.
What data source has the advantage of being almost nearly complete in the U.S.?
Mortality statistics & Birth statistics
The best routinely available sources of data regarding the incidence of respiratory
disease outbreaks and other rapidly spreading conditions are:
Reports of absenteeism from work and school
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