Epidemiology Final Exam| 109 questions| with complete solutions

A map displaying the geographic distribution of disease is called a correct answer: Spot map An epidemiologist receiving routine disease reports from a network of physician offices and laboratories and maintaining a database of these reports would be correct answer: Public Health Surveillance A case definition should be correct answer: Carefully crafted to include all potential cases, but not so vague as to include individuals suffering from "other" diseases The hallmark feature of an analytic epidemiological study is correct answer: Use of an appropriate comparison group John Snow is best known as correct answer: The "father of field epidemiology" The epidemiologic triad of disease causation refers to correct answer: Agent, Host, Environment The stage of the chain of infection when a person who is sick from tuberculosis coughs into the air correct answer: Portal of Exit A community that usually experiences between 10 and 15 cases of a particular disease per week finds that during the week of November 3-9 there were 9 cases of disease correct answer: ENDEMIC The latency period of disease is when correct answer: The patient has no symptoms of the disease The expression used to categorize how severe a disease is correct answer: Virulence A propagated epidemic is usually the result of what type of exposure? correct answer: person to person spread Factor A alone causes disease correct answer: Necessary AND Sufficient Factor A OR Factor B OR Factor C all cause the disease without help correct answer: Not Necessary BUT Sufficient Factor A and Factor B work together to cause the disease correct answer: Necessary and NOT Sufficient Factor A combined with Factor M causes the disease, but so does Factor B combined with Factor F correct answer: Not Necessary OR Sufficient Which measure of central tendency represents the values that occur most frequently? correct answer: Mode