Exam 1 (chapters 1-4) Questions
with Accurate Answers
Aims: Control correct answer Prevent the occurrence of new cases of disease, to
eliminate existing cases
Aims: Descriptive correct answer Number of cases of disease, to obtain relative
frequencies of the disease within subgroups and to obtain important trends
Aims: Explain correct answer Discover causal factors as well as to determine
modes of transmission
Aims: Predict correct answer estimate the actual number of cases that will
develop as well as to identify the distribution within populations.
Analytic Epidemiology correct answer Aims to research and study risk and
protector factors of diseases; identify the cause of the health problem
case report correct answer summary of the important details of a single incidence
of disease
case series correct answer summary of the characteristics of a list of consecutive
patients
Composition correct answer characteristics of the people with in a place