HK 207 MODULE 1 SLIDES | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Epidemiology? - ANS ✔✔The study of the distribution and determinants of health and diseases,
morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations.
Outbreaks - ANS ✔✔Elevated cases of a specific health outcomeor health behavior.
Epidemic - ANS ✔✔The occurrence (in a community or region) of cases of anillness, specific health-
related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
Pandemic - ANS ✔✔An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area,crossing international
boundaries, and usually affecting alarge number of people
Key Epidemiology Characteristics - ANS ✔✔Population focus; Distribution; Determinants; Outcomes;
Quantification; Control of health problems
Focus of Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔The focus of epidemiology is on the occurrence of health and disease in
the population
Distribution - ANS ✔✔The population's variance of disease and other healthoutcome occurrence, with
some subgroups of thepopulations more frequently affected than others
Determinant - ANS ✔✔Any factor that brings about change in a health condition orother defined
characteristic
Outcome - ANS ✔✔All the possible results that may stem from exposure to acausal factor
Morbidity - ANS ✔✔Illnesses due to a specific disease or health condition
Mortality - ANS ✔✔Death (e.g., death from various causes)
Quantification - ANS ✔✔Counting the cases of illness or other health outcomes; statistics used to
describe occurrence of health outcomes and measure their association with exposures
Descriptive Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔Epidemiologic studies concerned with characterizing the amount
and distribution of health and disease within a population
Analytic Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔Examines causal (etiologic)hypotheses regarding the association
between exposuresand health conditions
Natural Experiments - ANS ✔✔Naturally occurring circumstances in which subsets of thepopulation have
different levels of exposure to a supposedcausal factor in a situation resembling an actual
experiment,where human subjects would be randomly allocated togroups
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Epidemiology? - ANS ✔✔The study of the distribution and determinants of health and diseases,
morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations.
Outbreaks - ANS ✔✔Elevated cases of a specific health outcomeor health behavior.
Epidemic - ANS ✔✔The occurrence (in a community or region) of cases of anillness, specific health-
related behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
Pandemic - ANS ✔✔An epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area,crossing international
boundaries, and usually affecting alarge number of people
Key Epidemiology Characteristics - ANS ✔✔Population focus; Distribution; Determinants; Outcomes;
Quantification; Control of health problems
Focus of Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔The focus of epidemiology is on the occurrence of health and disease in
the population
Distribution - ANS ✔✔The population's variance of disease and other healthoutcome occurrence, with
some subgroups of thepopulations more frequently affected than others
Determinant - ANS ✔✔Any factor that brings about change in a health condition orother defined
characteristic
Outcome - ANS ✔✔All the possible results that may stem from exposure to acausal factor
Morbidity - ANS ✔✔Illnesses due to a specific disease or health condition
Mortality - ANS ✔✔Death (e.g., death from various causes)
Quantification - ANS ✔✔Counting the cases of illness or other health outcomes; statistics used to
describe occurrence of health outcomes and measure their association with exposures
Descriptive Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔Epidemiologic studies concerned with characterizing the amount
and distribution of health and disease within a population
Analytic Epidemiology - ANS ✔✔Examines causal (etiologic)hypotheses regarding the association
between exposuresand health conditions
Natural Experiments - ANS ✔✔Naturally occurring circumstances in which subsets of thepopulation have
different levels of exposure to a supposedcausal factor in a situation resembling an actual
experiment,where human subjects would be randomly allocated togroups
