Deck 4: Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Social Epidemiology

Question 1

Descriptive epidemiology is concerned with:

A) Time, place, and person
B) Rates
C) Morbidity and mortality
D) Cost

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Analytic epidemiology examines:

A) Descriptive comparisons between risk factor and specific health conditions
B) Socio-economics and disparity
C) Causal relationship between a risk factor and specific health condition
D) Incidence of disease

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Epidemiological Triangle encompasses:

A) Time, place, and person
B) Agent, host, and environment
C) Experimental, observational and cohort studies
D) Cause, effect, and comparisons

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Diseases such as diabetes, asthma, and heart disease are considered:

A) Non-communicable diseases
B) Environmental diseases
C) Communicable diseases
D) Sub-clinical diseases

Question 5

The chain of infection includes all of the following except:

A) Mode of transmission
B) Reservoir
C) Portal of entry and exit
D) Exposure

Question 6

The immediate transfer of the agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host by skin-to-skin contact is:

A) Biologic transmission
B) Direct transmission
C) Indirect transmission
D) Mechanical transmission

Question 7

Social epidemiology is guided by all of the following concepts except:

A) Social context of behavior
B) Multi-level analysis
C) Frequency distributions
D) Developmental and life-course perspectives

Question 8

The measure used to describe the presence of disease in a population in termed:

A) Morbidity
B) Case ratio
C) Mortality
D) Crude rate

Question 9

The mortality rate from all causes of death for a population is known as:

A) Age-specific mortality rate
B) Proportional mortality rate
C) Death-to-case ratio
D) Crude mortality rate

Question 10

The process by which people are treated differently because they are members of a particular group is known as:

A) Selection bias
B) Discrimination
C) Disparity
D) Inequity

Question 11

Epidemiology changed in recent years to include:

A) Focus on funding
B) Investigations into chronic illness
C) Focus on infectious diseases
D) Base rates on census data