Deck 9: Defining the Study Population

Question 1

Primarily a function of population health, a critical function of epidemiology dentifies the most extreme health disparities and makes this information available to other public health professionals.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What disadvantage is not explicitly considered to be linked with a health disparity in this chapter?

A) Education
B) Socioeconomic status
C) Gender
D) Race/ethnicity

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is least likely to be an indicator of study inclusion criteria?

A) Race/ethnicity
B) Age
C) Number of living children
D) Location of residence
E) Socioeconomic status

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Individual-level factors can interact with macro-level factors.

Question 5

An efficient method of defining a sample is to use:

A) Demographic information
B) Geographic information
C) Observational information
D) Demographic and geographic information

Question 6

The added risk of a given outcome for people who have the risk factor compared to those without the risk factor is known as the:

A) risk ratio.
B) health disparity.
C) odds ratio.
D) oppression.

Question 7

If the odds of a risk group being exposed to an outcome is 237% higher than the odds of the comparison group, the odds ratio is:

A) 3.27.
B) 2.37.
C) 3.37.
D) None of these is correct.

Question 8

What would you be conducting if you took old survey material to mold your inclusion study criteria?

A) A formal needs assessment
B) An informal needs assessment
C) Community-based participatory research
D) Identification of health disparities

Question 9

The relationship between oppression and the risk of developing a disease can be described as __________ by intersectionality.

A) nonexistent
B) direct
C) logarithmic
D) inverse

Question 10

Why does the National Institutes of Health require all research funding awards to include women and children (unless a valid justification is made)?

A) Women lack access to resources that men have.
B) Children are often neglected in research due to more rigorous IRB guidelines.
C) Women and children bear a disproportionate amount of the nation's diseases.
D) All of these are correct.