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38 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 38
The population decreases in size. As a result of deaths only.
Dynamic populations
Stable populations
Determinants
Fixed populations
Definition 2 of 38
____ work, a classic study that linked the cholera epidemic to contaminated water supplies, is
noteworthy because it utilized many of the features of epidemiologic inquiry: a spot map of
cases and tabulation of fatal attacks and deaths. (p. 30)
Joseph Lister
Robert Koch
John Snow
Louis Pasteur
Definition 3 of 38
____ are factors or events that are capable of bringing about a change in health. (p. 8)
Symptoms
Outcomes
Diagnoses
Determinants
,Definition 4 of 38
____ refers to the translation of qualitative impressions into numbers. (p. 17)
Qualitative Analysis
Statistical Modeling
Quantification
Data Collection
Definition 5 of 38
The term ____ refers to the historical shift from high birth and death rates found in agrarian
societies to much lower birth and death rates found in developed countries. (p. 67)
demographic transition
economic development
urban migration
population stagnation
Definition 6 of 38
Diseases in which key contributing factors are largely known but specific methods of control
have not been effectively implemented.
Residual Disorders
Operations Research
Persisting Disorder
Validity Of Diagnosis
,Definition 7 of 38
Verified that human disease was caused by a specific living organism.
John Snow
John Graunt
Edward Jenner
Robert Koch
Definition 8 of 38
His work made a fundamental contribution by discovering regularities in medical and social
phenomena. He is said to be the first to employ qualitative methods in describing population
vital statistics by organizing mortality data in a mortality table and has been referred to as the
Columbus of statistics.
Hippocrates
William Farr
John Graunt
John Snow
Definition 9 of 38
____ sources of information about disease may be, for example, a physician's observations
derived through medical practice about the types of people among whom a disease seems to
be common. (p. 17)
Theoretical
Experimental
Qualitative
Descriptive
, Definition 10 of 38
The ongoing ____, begun in 1948, is one of the pioneering research investigations of risk factors
for coronary heart disease. (p. 41)
Tuskegee Study
Nuremberg Trials
Framingham Heart Study
Nurses' Health Study
Definition 11 of 38
Diseases that remain common because an effective method of treatment has yet to be
discovered.
Persisting Disorders
Clustering Case Clustering
Descriptive Studies:
Residual Disorders
Definition 12 of 38
Naturally occurring circumstances in which subsets of population have different levels of
exposure to a supposed causal factor in a situation resembling an actual experiment.
Operations Research
Random Assignment
Natural Experiment
Causality
38 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 38
The population decreases in size. As a result of deaths only.
Dynamic populations
Stable populations
Determinants
Fixed populations
Definition 2 of 38
____ work, a classic study that linked the cholera epidemic to contaminated water supplies, is
noteworthy because it utilized many of the features of epidemiologic inquiry: a spot map of
cases and tabulation of fatal attacks and deaths. (p. 30)
Joseph Lister
Robert Koch
John Snow
Louis Pasteur
Definition 3 of 38
____ are factors or events that are capable of bringing about a change in health. (p. 8)
Symptoms
Outcomes
Diagnoses
Determinants
,Definition 4 of 38
____ refers to the translation of qualitative impressions into numbers. (p. 17)
Qualitative Analysis
Statistical Modeling
Quantification
Data Collection
Definition 5 of 38
The term ____ refers to the historical shift from high birth and death rates found in agrarian
societies to much lower birth and death rates found in developed countries. (p. 67)
demographic transition
economic development
urban migration
population stagnation
Definition 6 of 38
Diseases in which key contributing factors are largely known but specific methods of control
have not been effectively implemented.
Residual Disorders
Operations Research
Persisting Disorder
Validity Of Diagnosis
,Definition 7 of 38
Verified that human disease was caused by a specific living organism.
John Snow
John Graunt
Edward Jenner
Robert Koch
Definition 8 of 38
His work made a fundamental contribution by discovering regularities in medical and social
phenomena. He is said to be the first to employ qualitative methods in describing population
vital statistics by organizing mortality data in a mortality table and has been referred to as the
Columbus of statistics.
Hippocrates
William Farr
John Graunt
John Snow
Definition 9 of 38
____ sources of information about disease may be, for example, a physician's observations
derived through medical practice about the types of people among whom a disease seems to
be common. (p. 17)
Theoretical
Experimental
Qualitative
Descriptive
, Definition 10 of 38
The ongoing ____, begun in 1948, is one of the pioneering research investigations of risk factors
for coronary heart disease. (p. 41)
Tuskegee Study
Nuremberg Trials
Framingham Heart Study
Nurses' Health Study
Definition 11 of 38
Diseases that remain common because an effective method of treatment has yet to be
discovered.
Persisting Disorders
Clustering Case Clustering
Descriptive Studies:
Residual Disorders
Definition 12 of 38
Naturally occurring circumstances in which subsets of population have different levels of
exposure to a supposed causal factor in a situation resembling an actual experiment.
Operations Research
Random Assignment
Natural Experiment
Causality
