Epidemiology | Quiz 1 Set 1 Questions and Answers with 100%
Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations
Correct Answer: Epidemiology
Question 2.
Distribution refers to primarily how
Correct Answer: Morbidity or mortality is distributed in a given population or
community Specifically in describing frequency and patterns of M&M
Question 3.
Patterns of M&M are described in terms of...
Correct Answer: Person, Place and time
Question 4.
Variables of the person in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Age, sex, SES, occupation, education, marital status, HS,
immunization status, lifestyle, enviromental factor
Question 5.
Variables of the place in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Urban, rural, schools, institutions, indoors, outdoors, home, or
work
Question 6.
Variables of the time in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Includes the onset of a given disease (hour, day, year), time of
diagnosis (depression, arthitis, prostate CA)
Question 7.
When the first symptoms disease appear
Correct Answer: Infectious disease are usually classified by
Question 8.
Chronic disease are classified by
Correct Answer: The date of diagnosis
, Question 9.
Classifying M or M by time can reveal
Correct Answer: Pattern of disease
Question 10.
Common temporal patterns of M or M include:
Correct Answer: short term fluctuations, cyclic patterns, and secular trends
Question 11.
the habitual presence of a disease within a given geographic area (usual occurrence of a
given disease within such an area).
Correct Answer: endemic
Question 12.
the occurrence in a community or region of a group of illnesses of similar nature, in excess
of normal expectancy, and derived from a propagated source.
Correct Answer: epidemic disease
Question 13.
(an epidemic on a grand scale crossing international borders and afflicting large numbers
of people worldwide epidemic.
Correct Answer: pandemics
Question 14.
A physician who is often credited as the first true epidemiologist. First to offer rational
versus supernatural explanations for disease occurrence in terms of environmental and
other factors.
Correct Answer: Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
Question 15.
Edward Jenner
Correct Answer: (1749-1823): invented a vaccine against smallpox based on
careful observation.
Question 16.
(1813-1858): demonstrated that cholera could be transmitted through contaminated
water. Eminent example of analytic epidemiology.
Correct Answer: John Snow
Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations
Correct Answer: Epidemiology
Question 2.
Distribution refers to primarily how
Correct Answer: Morbidity or mortality is distributed in a given population or
community Specifically in describing frequency and patterns of M&M
Question 3.
Patterns of M&M are described in terms of...
Correct Answer: Person, Place and time
Question 4.
Variables of the person in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Age, sex, SES, occupation, education, marital status, HS,
immunization status, lifestyle, enviromental factor
Question 5.
Variables of the place in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Urban, rural, schools, institutions, indoors, outdoors, home, or
work
Question 6.
Variables of the time in M&M patterns
Correct Answer: Includes the onset of a given disease (hour, day, year), time of
diagnosis (depression, arthitis, prostate CA)
Question 7.
When the first symptoms disease appear
Correct Answer: Infectious disease are usually classified by
Question 8.
Chronic disease are classified by
Correct Answer: The date of diagnosis
, Question 9.
Classifying M or M by time can reveal
Correct Answer: Pattern of disease
Question 10.
Common temporal patterns of M or M include:
Correct Answer: short term fluctuations, cyclic patterns, and secular trends
Question 11.
the habitual presence of a disease within a given geographic area (usual occurrence of a
given disease within such an area).
Correct Answer: endemic
Question 12.
the occurrence in a community or region of a group of illnesses of similar nature, in excess
of normal expectancy, and derived from a propagated source.
Correct Answer: epidemic disease
Question 13.
(an epidemic on a grand scale crossing international borders and afflicting large numbers
of people worldwide epidemic.
Correct Answer: pandemics
Question 14.
A physician who is often credited as the first true epidemiologist. First to offer rational
versus supernatural explanations for disease occurrence in terms of environmental and
other factors.
Correct Answer: Hippocrates (460-377 BC)
Question 15.
Edward Jenner
Correct Answer: (1749-1823): invented a vaccine against smallpox based on
careful observation.
Question 16.
(1813-1858): demonstrated that cholera could be transmitted through contaminated
water. Eminent example of analytic epidemiology.
Correct Answer: John Snow
