Epidemiology Exam 1 2024/2025 Exam
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epidemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the occurrence in a community or region of cases of an
illness, specific health-related behaviors, or other health related events in
excess of normal expectancy exp. ecoli or salmonella (food-borne). Sometimes it
can be a single case, like measles or ebola, and it can also be a chronic disease,
like obesity.
pandemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemic occurring worldwide or over a large area,
crossing international boundaries
epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔distribution and determinants of health and
diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. It is
applied to control health problems in populations
population - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔all the inhabitants of a given country or area
considered together
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,distribution - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔occurrence of disease and other health outcomes
carries in populations, some subgroups are more affected than others, such as
variations in the occurrence of diabetes in a population
determinant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a collective or individual risk factor (or set of
factors) that is causally related to a health condition, outcome, or other defined
characteristics. For example, this can be a biological agent (virus) or a chemical
agent (carcinogen
exposures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔contact with a disease causing factor or to the
amount of the factor that impinges on a group of individuals
outcomes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔all possible results that may stem from exposure to a
causal factor
morbidity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔illness due to a specific disease or health condition
mortalilty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔causes of death
descriptive epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemiological studies concerned
with characterizing the amount and distribution of health and disease in a
population. Health outcomes are classified on person (sex, age, race), place
(country), and time (day, month, year)
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, analytic epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔examines causal hypotheses regarding
the association between exposures and health conditions. Takes advantage of
naturally occurring events to test a causal hypothesis
natural epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔naturally occurring circumstances in which
subsets of the population have different levels of exposure to a hypothesized
causal factor in situation resembling an actual experiment
Hippocrates - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔suggested that water and air quality were
implicated in the cause of disease (germ theory)
Paracelus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔father of toxicology and cam e up with the dose-
response relationship
toxicology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔examines the toxic effects of chemicals found in
environmental venues
dose-response relationship - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔refers to the observation that effects
of poison are related to the strength of the dose
John Graunt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔first to employ quantitative methods to describe a
populations vital statistics by organizing mortality data
Ramazzini - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Founder of occupational medicine - he created
elaborate descriptions of the manifestation of occupational disease among
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epidemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the occurrence in a community or region of cases of an
illness, specific health-related behaviors, or other health related events in
excess of normal expectancy exp. ecoli or salmonella (food-borne). Sometimes it
can be a single case, like measles or ebola, and it can also be a chronic disease,
like obesity.
pandemic - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemic occurring worldwide or over a large area,
crossing international boundaries
epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔distribution and determinants of health and
diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. It is
applied to control health problems in populations
population - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔all the inhabitants of a given country or area
considered together
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,distribution - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔occurrence of disease and other health outcomes
carries in populations, some subgroups are more affected than others, such as
variations in the occurrence of diabetes in a population
determinant - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a collective or individual risk factor (or set of
factors) that is causally related to a health condition, outcome, or other defined
characteristics. For example, this can be a biological agent (virus) or a chemical
agent (carcinogen
exposures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔contact with a disease causing factor or to the
amount of the factor that impinges on a group of individuals
outcomes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔all possible results that may stem from exposure to a
causal factor
morbidity - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔illness due to a specific disease or health condition
mortalilty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔causes of death
descriptive epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemiological studies concerned
with characterizing the amount and distribution of health and disease in a
population. Health outcomes are classified on person (sex, age, race), place
(country), and time (day, month, year)
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, analytic epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔examines causal hypotheses regarding
the association between exposures and health conditions. Takes advantage of
naturally occurring events to test a causal hypothesis
natural epidemiology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔naturally occurring circumstances in which
subsets of the population have different levels of exposure to a hypothesized
causal factor in situation resembling an actual experiment
Hippocrates - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔suggested that water and air quality were
implicated in the cause of disease (germ theory)
Paracelus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔father of toxicology and cam e up with the dose-
response relationship
toxicology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔examines the toxic effects of chemicals found in
environmental venues
dose-response relationship - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔refers to the observation that effects
of poison are related to the strength of the dose
John Graunt - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔first to employ quantitative methods to describe a
populations vital statistics by organizing mortality data
Ramazzini - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Founder of occupational medicine - he created
elaborate descriptions of the manifestation of occupational disease among
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