PHC 4030 Final Exam questions with
correct answers
Confidentiality in research - correct answer ✔✔guarantees that any information a subject provides will
not be reported in any manner that identifies the subject and will not be accessible to people outside
the research team
Declaration of Helsinki - correct answer ✔✔First step in identifying morally correct research and has
served as the foundation for all future regulations on human subjects.
Disaster Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔use of
epidemiology to assess the short- and long-term adverse health effects of disasters and to predict
consequences of future disasters.
Epidemiological triangle - correct answer ✔✔the longstanding models used to describe the etiology of
infectious diseases including three major factors - the agent, host, and environment
agent - correct answer ✔✔a factor whose presence, excessive presence, or relative
absence is essential for the occurrence of a disease.
host - correct answer ✔✔person or other living animal, including birds and arthropods, that affords
subsistence or lodgment to an infectious agent under natural conditions.
environment - correct answer ✔✔the domain in which disease-causing agents may exist, survive, or
originate
Epidemiology of Injuries - correct answer ✔✔studies the distribution and determinants of injury (both
intentional and unintentional) in the population, 4th leading cause of death
correct answers
Confidentiality in research - correct answer ✔✔guarantees that any information a subject provides will
not be reported in any manner that identifies the subject and will not be accessible to people outside
the research team
Declaration of Helsinki - correct answer ✔✔First step in identifying morally correct research and has
served as the foundation for all future regulations on human subjects.
Disaster Epidemiology - correct answer ✔✔use of
epidemiology to assess the short- and long-term adverse health effects of disasters and to predict
consequences of future disasters.
Epidemiological triangle - correct answer ✔✔the longstanding models used to describe the etiology of
infectious diseases including three major factors - the agent, host, and environment
agent - correct answer ✔✔a factor whose presence, excessive presence, or relative
absence is essential for the occurrence of a disease.
host - correct answer ✔✔person or other living animal, including birds and arthropods, that affords
subsistence or lodgment to an infectious agent under natural conditions.
environment - correct answer ✔✔the domain in which disease-causing agents may exist, survive, or
originate
Epidemiology of Injuries - correct answer ✔✔studies the distribution and determinants of injury (both
intentional and unintentional) in the population, 4th leading cause of death
