Epidemiology Final Exam Questions with Complete Solutions

A map displaying the geographic distribution of disease is called a - 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 - ANSWER-Public Health Surveillance A case definition should be - 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 - ANSWER-Use of an appropriate comparison group John Snow is best known as - ANSWER-The "father of field epidemiology" The epidemiologic triad of disease causation refers to - ANSWER-Agent, Host, Environment The stage of the chain of infection when a person who is sick from tuberculosis coughs into the air - 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 - ANSWER-ENDEMIC The latency period of disease is when - ANSWER-The patient has no symptoms of the disease The expression used to categorize how severe a disease is - ANSWER-Virulence A propagated epidemic is usually the result of what type of exposure? - ANSWER-person to person spread Factor A alone causes disease - ANSWER-Necessary AND Sufficient Factor A OR Factor B OR Factor C all cause the disease without help - ANSWER-Not Necessary BUT Sufficient Factor A and Factor B work together to cause the disease - ANSWER-Necessary and NOT Sufficient