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MBI Exam 1 Study Guide.
Epidemiology - Answers✔the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control of health
problems
distribution - Answers✔the analysis of the health-related states or events patterns according to
the characteristics of who, where, when
determinants - Answers✔factors that bring about a change in an individual's health
epidemiologic factors affecting a community's health/disease - Answers✔population dynamics,
vector dynamics, occupational health, extant human health problems, extant non-human
health problems, air/water quality, public health services, agricultural quality
Epidemiologic Transition - Answers✔transition from acute & infectious disease to chronic and
noninfectious diseases as a country develops economically
Primary prevention - Answers✔preventing the initial development of the disease (vaccination,
education)
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Secondary prevention - Answers✔early detection of existing disease to reduce severity &
complications (Screening)
Tertiary prevention - Answers✔reducing the impact of the disease (treatment)
Semmelweis - Answers✔looked to reduce maternal mortality due to childbed fever and realized
hand hygiene was the proper intervention
Edward Jenner - Answers✔noticed how milk maids who had gotten cow pox were immune to
small pox, so inoculated a little boy and made him immune. Operated purely on observational
data that provided him with the basis for a preventive intervention
small pox - Answers✔symptoms are quick & obvious. WHO certified it was eradicated in 1980
extant - Answers✔still existing. Polio
Father of Epidemiology - Answers✔John Snow
John Snow - Answers✔radical & implicated epidemiologic method. Never identified the
etiologic agent as V. cholera but was able to determine specific blocks using a single water
pump had more cholera. He took handle off decreasing cases thus linking cholera to a water
source
Shoe Leather Epidemiology - Answers✔practice of working in the field to conduct research.
Snow practiced this type of research when he asked around the community about Cholera
deaths
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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
MBI Exam 1 Study Guide.
Epidemiology - Answers✔the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to control of health
problems
distribution - Answers✔the analysis of the health-related states or events patterns according to
the characteristics of who, where, when
determinants - Answers✔factors that bring about a change in an individual's health
epidemiologic factors affecting a community's health/disease - Answers✔population dynamics,
vector dynamics, occupational health, extant human health problems, extant non-human
health problems, air/water quality, public health services, agricultural quality
Epidemiologic Transition - Answers✔transition from acute & infectious disease to chronic and
noninfectious diseases as a country develops economically
Primary prevention - Answers✔preventing the initial development of the disease (vaccination,
education)
1|Page
, ©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS 2024/2025
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Secondary prevention - Answers✔early detection of existing disease to reduce severity &
complications (Screening)
Tertiary prevention - Answers✔reducing the impact of the disease (treatment)
Semmelweis - Answers✔looked to reduce maternal mortality due to childbed fever and realized
hand hygiene was the proper intervention
Edward Jenner - Answers✔noticed how milk maids who had gotten cow pox were immune to
small pox, so inoculated a little boy and made him immune. Operated purely on observational
data that provided him with the basis for a preventive intervention
small pox - Answers✔symptoms are quick & obvious. WHO certified it was eradicated in 1980
extant - Answers✔still existing. Polio
Father of Epidemiology - Answers✔John Snow
John Snow - Answers✔radical & implicated epidemiologic method. Never identified the
etiologic agent as V. cholera but was able to determine specific blocks using a single water
pump had more cholera. He took handle off decreasing cases thus linking cholera to a water
source
Shoe Leather Epidemiology - Answers✔practice of working in the field to conduct research.
Snow practiced this type of research when he asked around the community about Cholera
deaths
2|Page
