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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Dynamics of Disease Transmission
Chapter 3: The Occurrence of Disease: I. Disease Surveillance and Measures of Morbidity
Chapter 4: The Occurrence of Disease: II. Mortality and Other Measures of Disease
Impact
Chapter 5: Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic and Screening Tests
Chapter 6: The Natural History of Disease: Ways of Expressing Prognosis
Chapter 7: Observational Studies
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Chapter 8: Cohort Studies
Chapter 9: Comparing Cohort and Case-Control Studies
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Chapter 10: Assessing Preventive and Therapeutic Measures: Randomized Trials
Chapter 11: Randomized Trials: Some Further Issues
Chapter 12: Estimating Risk: Is There an Association?
Chapter 13: More on Risk: Estimating the Potential for Prevention
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Chapter 14: From Association to Causation: Deriving Inferences From Epidemiologic
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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
Causation
Chapter 17: Using Epidemiology to Evaluate Health Services
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Chapter 18: Epidemiologic Approach to Evaluating Screening Programs
Chapter 19: Epidemiology and Public Policy
Chapter 20: Ethical and Professional Issues in Epidemiology
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
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1. Which of the following is an example of tertiary prevention?
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a. Vaccination for rotavirus for children younger than the age of 1 year
b. Surgical amputation of an extremity with osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
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d. Sexual education program in elementary schools
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diabetes after 24 weeks of pregnancy is an example of secondary prevention.
2. This historic character observed that childbed fever mortality was more common among
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women treated by physicians and medical students compared with women treated by
midwives. Based on his observations, he implemented a hand wash policy that resulted in a
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e. Ignaz Semmelweis
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Smallpox was eradicated in 1980. Edward Jenner vaccinated James Phipps in 1796 against
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