Epidemiology | Midterm Set 6 Questions and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Epidemiology | Midterm Set 6 Questions and Answers with
100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Question 1.
Seeks to lower the occurence of disease: health promoting behavior, health education,
protective equipment, vaccination

Correct Answer: Primary prevention


Question 2.
Secondary Prevention

Correct Answer: Seeks to diagnose disease early and begin treatment; screening


Question 3.
Seeks to promote rehabilitation, restoring patients to a maximum optimal functional level

Correct Answer: Tertiary Prevention


Question 4.
Compares a group of individuals who have the disease of interest with a group who does
not have the disease

Correct Answer: Case Control study


Question 5.
Compares a group of individuals free of disease against a variety of exposures that are
hypothesized to increase or decrease the chance of getting the outcome

Correct Answer: Cohort study


Question 6.
In epidemiology, a determinant is a factor or event capable of bringing about a change in
health. True or False?

Correct Answer: True


Question 7.
Correct Answer: True


Question 8.
The ultimate goal of epidemiology is to [x] and [y] disease in populations. A. encourage
and promote B. prevent and concede C. stop and control D. prevent and limit
E. prevent and control

Correct Answer: prevent and control

,Question 9.
Which of the following is NOT part of understanding the distribution of a disease? A. Where
B. When C. Who D. Risk factors

Correct Answer: Risk factors


Question 10.
Epidemiology studies disease occurrence among A. individuals B. causative agents C.
health phenomena D. populations

Correct Answer: Populations


Question 11.
Who is the "father" of Epidemiology? A. Louis Pasteur B. William Farr C. John Snow D.
Robert Koch

Correct Answer: John Snow


Question 12.
What are the two assumptions which guide epidemiology? A. Disease does not occur at
random. B. Only the good die young

Correct Answer: Disease does not occur at random. Disease has causal and
preventative factors that can be identified through systematic study of
populations.


Question 13.
Which discipline is NOT part of the "Epi Onion"? A. Medicine B. Microbiology C. Mortician D.
Sociology

Correct Answer: Mortician


Question 14.
Another word for "determinants" of disease is "risk factors." True or False?

Correct Answer: True


Question 15.
Which of these is not a determinant of disease?
A. occupational exposure
B. aging
C. random event
D. socio-political factors

Correct Answer: Random event

,Question 16.
Since October 2016, a total of 1,023 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the
same genetic fingerprint have been identified in the following states. These were identified
because clinical labo- ratories in all states send strains from ill persons to their state public
health laboratory for characterization. The number of ill persons identified in each state is
as follows: Arkansas (10 persons), Arizona (39), California (342), Colorado (8), Connecticut
(4), Florida (1), Georgia (18), Idaho (81), Kansas (14), Kentucky (1), Maine (12), Maryland
(25), Massachusetts (18), Michigan (4), Minnesota (2), Missouri (12), New Hampshire (3),
Nevada (4), New Jersey (4), New Mexico (85), New York (25), North Carolina (5), Ohio (6),
Oklahoma (19), Oregon (7), Pennsylvania (6), Tennessee (6), Texas (226), Utah (2),
Virginia (22), Vermont (1), Washington (4), Wisconsin (6), and the District of Columbia (1).
What percent of cases are from the state with the most cases?
A. 33.43%
B. 3.43%
C. 22.09%
D. 44.22%
E. 33%

Correct Answer: 33.43%


Question 17.
No partial credit will be awarded. Select all that apply. Which of the following represent the
aspect of "place" in descriptive epidemiology? A. Latitude, longitude, and climate B. What
month it is C. Geography of an area D. None of the above E. How many people live in a
household F. All of the above

Correct Answer: A. Latitude, longitude, and climate C. Geography of an area


Question 18.
No partial credit will be awarded. Which of the following are determinants of disease?
(Select all that are correct) A. Carcinogens or chemicals B. Behaviors/habits/lifestyles C.
Socio-political factors

Correct Answer: A. Carcinogens or chemicals B. Behaviors/habits/lifestyles C.
Socio-political factors


Question 19.
Passive surveillance yields data in response to aggressive outreach from local and/or state
public health agencies. True or False?

Correct Answer: False


Question 20.
No partial credit will be awarded. Select all the apply to a population at risk in
epidemiology: A. People who live in a certain geographic area B. People who cannot get
the disease you are interested in studying/preventing C. People who share life styles/life
events D. People who have the disease you are interested in studying/preventing E. A
group with common characteristics F. People who use the same resources

, Correct Answer: A. People who live in a certain geographic area C. People who
share life styles/life events E. A group with common characteristics F. People
who use the same resources


Question 21.
State Vital Statistics

Correct Answer: births, deaths, marriages, divorces


Question 22.
Census

Correct Answer:


Question 23.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Correct Answer: prevalence of chronic diseases


Question 24.
The three key elements of descriptive epidemiology.

Correct Answer: Person, place, and time


Question 25.
The theory that there IS an association between the exposure and the outcome.

Correct Answer: Alternate hypothesis


Question 26.
The "normal" or expected amount of disease occurrence.

Correct Answer: Endemic


Question 27.
The theory that there is no association between the exposure and the outcome.

Correct Answer: Null hypothesis


Question 28.
Higher than the expected number of cases.

Correct Answer: Epidemic


Question 29.
Key elements in descriptive epidemiology for "time"

Correct Answer: Calendar days, hours in a day, monthly/yearly cycles of climate