Epidemiology | Quiz 1 Set 2 Questions and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Epidemiology | Quiz 1 Set 2 Questions and Answers with 100%
Correct Answers | Latest Version

Question 1.
Which of the following statements about incidence, prevalence, mortality rate and
case-fatality is the most accurate?
A. They are the only measurements used to quantify the frequency of disease
B. Case-fatality equals mortality rate/ incidence
C. They are all true rates of disease
D. All of the above are accurate

Correct Answer: B. Case-fatality equals mortality rate/ incidence


Question 2.
The attack rate for a communicable disease in a community of 1,000 is 100 cases over the
length of an outbreak of the disease Select the best match for the following types of
measurement
A. Count
B. Probability
C. True rate
D. Proportional mortality
E. Ratio in which the numerator is not a subset of the denominator

Correct Answer: C. True rate


Question 3.
In a particular country there are as many abortions as live births Select the best match for
the following types of measurement
A. Count
B. Probability
C. True rate
D. Proportional mortality

Correct Answer: E. Ratio in which the numerator is not a subset of the
denominator


Question 4.
Which of the following best describes the relationship between incidence and prevalence
of a disease?
A. When incidence increases prevalence decreases
B. Incidence approximately equals prevalence times average duration
C. Prevalence approximately equals incidence times average duration
D. Incidence and prevalence are unrelated

Correct Answer: C. Prevalence approxi- mately equals incidence times average
duration