Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: The Dynamics of Disease Transmission
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Chapter 3: The Occurrence of Disease: I. Disease Surveillance and Measures of
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Morbidity
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Chapter 4: The Occurrence of Disease: II. Mortality and Other Measures of Disease Impact
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Chapter 5: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening
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Chapter 6: The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis
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Chapter 7: Observational Studies
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Chapter 8: Cohort Studies
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Chapter 9: Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Studies
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Chapter 10: Assessing Preventive and Therapeutic Measures: Randomized Trials
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Chapter 11: Randomized Trials: Some Further Issues
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Chapter 12: Estimating Risk: Is There an Association?
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Chapter 13: More on Risk: Estimating the Potential for Prevention
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Chapter 14: From Association to Causation: Deriving Inferences From
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Epidemiologic Studies
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Chapter 15: More on Causal Inference: Bias, Confounding, and Interaction
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Chapter 16: Identifying the Roles of Genetic and Environmental Factors in Disease
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Causation
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Chapter 17: Using Epidemiology to Evaluate Health Services
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Chapter 18: Epidemiologic Approach to Evaluating Screening Programs
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Chapter 20: Ethical and Professional Issues in Epidemiology
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1. Which of the following is an example of tertiary prevention?
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b. Surgical amputation of an extremity with osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
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Surgical amputation of an extremity with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) is an example in which
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when a disease is present the treatment (amputation) is done to reduce the impact of disease
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by preventing the tumor from dissemination. Vaccinationa fboirrb .rcootm
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than the age of 1 year, sexual education program in elementary schools, and increasing taxes
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women treated by physicians and medical students compared with women treated by
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midwives. Based on his observations, he implemented a hand wash policy that resulted in a
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not washing their hands after examining bodies at autopsies and conducting multiple
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examinations in the clinic.
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3. Thanks to the contributions of Edward Jenner, the following disease was eradicated later
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by efforts organized by D.A. Henderson:
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d. Polio
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e. Zika
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