HLTH 698 EXIT EXAM STUDY GUIDE Define a biblical basis for personal and public health practice.

HLTH 698 EXIT EXAM STUDY GUIDE Define a biblical basis for personal and public health practice. HLTH 503: Epidemiology 1. Who were John Graunt and John Snow? 2. Define the point prevalence of a disease. 3. Differentiate between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention 4. As an epidemiologist you are going to investigate the effect of a drug suspected of causing malformations in newborn infants when the drug in question is taken by pregnant women during the course of their pregnancies. As your sample you will use the next 200 single births occurring in a given hospital. For each birth a medication history will be taken from the new mother and from her doctor; in addition, you will review medical records to verify use of the drug. [N.B.: These mothers are considered to have been followed prospectively during the entire course of their pregnancies, because a complete and accurate record of drug use was maintained during pregnancy.] 5. Define relative risk. Given a data set, how would this ratio be calculated? 6. A new screening test for Lyme disease is developed for use in the general population. The sensitivity and specificity of the new test are 60% and 70%, respectively. Three hundred people are screened at a clinic during the first year the new test is implemented. Assume Page 1 of 11 HLTH 698 the true prevalence of Lyme disease among clinic attendees is 10%. Calculate the following values: