PUBH 6035 Module 1 Quiz; Check Your Knowledge

1. Question: Epidemiology involves studying infectious communicable disease, not events like injury, obesity, mental health disorders, and seat belt use. 2. Question: The Framing ham study was a: 3. Question: Epidemiology includes the study of: 4. Question: The definition of epidemiology involves all of the following EXCEPT 5. Question: Who evaluated the Bills of Mortality? 6. Question: Who helped to establish the germ theory of disease? 7. Question: Who showed that poor diet could result in scurvy? 8. Question: The web of causation includes host and environmental determinants. 9. Question: A cause of disease is an event, condition, or characteristic that preceded the disease and without which the disease would either not have occurred or would have occurred later. 10. Question: Which sequence below represents the chronological evolution of disease causation approaches in epidemiology (from oldest to newest)? 11. Question: Which of the following are essential attributes of causes (choose all that apply)? 12. Question: How much of the increase in U.S. life expectancy since the 20th century can beat tribute to public health improvements? 13. Question: The purpose of disease surveillance is to monitor aspects of dsease occurrence that are pertinent to effective control. 14. Question: John Snow used mortality data developed by William Farr to test a hypothesis that cholera was spread by contaminated water. 15. Question: Which of the following innovations did The Streptomycin Tuberulosis Trial employ (choose all that apply)?