MPH 6011 EXAM 5 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Analytic Epidemiology
An epidemiologist investigates why flight attendants develop brain cancer more than the general
population. Select the term that best describes the activity.
Which of the activities below is not an activity related to epidemiology?
Ensure a competent workforce is available to provide health education, health care, and other
services to people who need them.
Which of the activities below is not a core function of public health?
Identify the correct treatment for individual patients
Which of the following describes the interaction of factors that influence infectious disease
transmission?
Agent, host, and environment
All infectious diseases are communicable.
False
All communicable diseases are infectious diseases, but not all infectious disease are
communicable.
Vaccination is a strategy for which level of prevention?
Passive primary prevention
Direct transmission includes which of the following? All three answers must apply to direct
transmission.
Coughing, sex, droplets
,Between 2010 and 2018, Buncombe County, NC, reported between 1 and 7 cases of
Legionnaire's disease annually. Legionnaire's disease would be considered which of the
following in Buncombe County?
Endemic
In 2019, Buncombe County, NC, reported 49 cases of Legionnaire's disease. In prior years
between 1 and 7 cases were reported annually. The occurrence of Legionnaire's disease in
2019 would be consider which of the following in Buncombe County?
Epidemic
An epidemiologist is interested in describing various health outcomes that occur among
participants in the western North Carolina state fair. The population is defined as all
people who attended the fair on one or more days between September 6 and 15, 2019. This
population can best be classified as which of the following?
Open because the attendees at the fair changed each day; some attended only one day, others
attended many days.
A person who may have been exposed to Ebola may be placed under quarantine.
True
Methods of preventing and controlling infectious diseases are employed in:
The environment, host, and population
Who demonstrated that hand washing could prevent the spread of disease in hospitals?
Ignaz Semmelweis
The physician who discovered immunization was:
Edward Jenner
Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever and malaria used to be endemic in the United
States.
True
, Due to public health, medical, and epidemiologic advances, the world is no longer at risk of
infectious disease epidemics or pandemics
False
John Snow's work on cholera demonstrated which of the following components of
epidemiology:
Descriptive, analytic, and application (e.g., interventions)
John Snow carried out all the components of epidemiology: descriptive through mapping cases
in 1948, analytic by comparing mortality between households served by two different water
companies - one that pulled clean water from upriver, and ones that pulled contaminated water
from downriver.
Numerous public health entities and organizations were founded in the United States
during the period between 1850 and 1950.
True
The goal of the Framingham Heart Study was to determine:
Which risk factors were the biggest contributors to cardiovascular disease
Smoking was concluded to be a cause of lung cancer based on which of the following
events?
Numerous case-control and cohort studies in the US and England in the mid-1900s
Identifying smoking as a cause of lung cancer is an example of which of the following?
Analytic epidemiology
The change from infectious diseases to chronic conditions as the leading cause of morbidity
and mortality is and example of which of the following?
Epidemiologic transition
The decline in mortality due to infectious diseases in Europe and the United States was
primarily due to the discovery of antibiotics and other medical advances.
CORRECT ANSWERS!!
Analytic Epidemiology
An epidemiologist investigates why flight attendants develop brain cancer more than the general
population. Select the term that best describes the activity.
Which of the activities below is not an activity related to epidemiology?
Ensure a competent workforce is available to provide health education, health care, and other
services to people who need them.
Which of the activities below is not a core function of public health?
Identify the correct treatment for individual patients
Which of the following describes the interaction of factors that influence infectious disease
transmission?
Agent, host, and environment
All infectious diseases are communicable.
False
All communicable diseases are infectious diseases, but not all infectious disease are
communicable.
Vaccination is a strategy for which level of prevention?
Passive primary prevention
Direct transmission includes which of the following? All three answers must apply to direct
transmission.
Coughing, sex, droplets
,Between 2010 and 2018, Buncombe County, NC, reported between 1 and 7 cases of
Legionnaire's disease annually. Legionnaire's disease would be considered which of the
following in Buncombe County?
Endemic
In 2019, Buncombe County, NC, reported 49 cases of Legionnaire's disease. In prior years
between 1 and 7 cases were reported annually. The occurrence of Legionnaire's disease in
2019 would be consider which of the following in Buncombe County?
Epidemic
An epidemiologist is interested in describing various health outcomes that occur among
participants in the western North Carolina state fair. The population is defined as all
people who attended the fair on one or more days between September 6 and 15, 2019. This
population can best be classified as which of the following?
Open because the attendees at the fair changed each day; some attended only one day, others
attended many days.
A person who may have been exposed to Ebola may be placed under quarantine.
True
Methods of preventing and controlling infectious diseases are employed in:
The environment, host, and population
Who demonstrated that hand washing could prevent the spread of disease in hospitals?
Ignaz Semmelweis
The physician who discovered immunization was:
Edward Jenner
Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever and malaria used to be endemic in the United
States.
True
, Due to public health, medical, and epidemiologic advances, the world is no longer at risk of
infectious disease epidemics or pandemics
False
John Snow's work on cholera demonstrated which of the following components of
epidemiology:
Descriptive, analytic, and application (e.g., interventions)
John Snow carried out all the components of epidemiology: descriptive through mapping cases
in 1948, analytic by comparing mortality between households served by two different water
companies - one that pulled clean water from upriver, and ones that pulled contaminated water
from downriver.
Numerous public health entities and organizations were founded in the United States
during the period between 1850 and 1950.
True
The goal of the Framingham Heart Study was to determine:
Which risk factors were the biggest contributors to cardiovascular disease
Smoking was concluded to be a cause of lung cancer based on which of the following
events?
Numerous case-control and cohort studies in the US and England in the mid-1900s
Identifying smoking as a cause of lung cancer is an example of which of the following?
Analytic epidemiology
The change from infectious diseases to chronic conditions as the leading cause of morbidity
and mortality is and example of which of the following?
Epidemiologic transition
The decline in mortality due to infectious diseases in Europe and the United States was
primarily due to the discovery of antibiotics and other medical advances.
