EPIB301: Homework - Data Analysis and Epidemiology
Epidemiology focuses on population health while clinical medicine focuses on individual health. - correct
answer ✔✔True; The unique focus of epidemiology is upon the occurrence of health and disease in the
population. Clinical medicine is concerned with the individual, e.g., diagnosis and treatment of specific
individuals.
Distinguish between the descriptive and analytic approaches to epidemiology. - correct answer
✔✔Descriptive epidemiology characterizes the amount and distribution of health and health
determinants in a population, while analytic epidemiology examines causal hypotheses regarding
associations between exposures and health conditions.
This famous person promoted the concept of multifactorial etiology. - correct answer ✔✔William Farr;
also contributed a classification system for disease.
A method for providing quantitative measurements of risks to health is known as: - correct answer
✔✔risk assessment
A pandemic is an epidemic occurring worldwide or crossing international boundaries. - correct answer
✔✔true
A population is defined as all of the inhabitants of a given country or area considered together. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Which of the following can be answered using epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔What are the risk
factors for contracting COVID-19?
How many people in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019?
Are older individuals more at risk for Alzheimer's Disease?
How many children contracted measles in 2018?
, All of the above!
Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determinants of health and diseases, morbidity,
injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. - correct answer ✔✔True
As discussed in your text and lecture video, epidemiologic studies can be categorized as "descriptive" or
"analytic". In 1-2 sentences, describe a research question related to COVID-19 that would be classified as
analytic epidemiology. - correct answer ✔✔How does exposure to asymptomatic cases of COVID-19
affect the number of cases of COVID-19 at the University of Maryland?
It is possible for a single case of a disease to represent an epidemic. - correct answer ✔✔True
Epidemiologic methods can be applied to which of the following public health-related fields? - correct
answer ✔✔health education, healthcare administration, environmental health
Which of the following is considered a use of epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔To study the workings
of health services in the community, To diagnose the dimensions and distributions of disease within a
community, To search for causes of disease and other health outcomes
Which of the following fields contribute to epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔virology, psychology,
demography, biostatistics
True or False: an epidemic can refer to an infectious or chronic disease. - correct answer ✔✔true
What is the purpose of disease surveillance? Please select all that apply. - correct answer ✔✔obtain a
baseline level of disease occurrence in a population and identify peaks in disease occurrence
Which of the following may be an epidemiologic "population"? - correct answer ✔✔all individuals living
in the US, students living in dorms at UMD, alaskan resident counted in the US census, total patients at
Boston Children's Hospital
Epidemiology focuses on population health while clinical medicine focuses on individual health. - correct
answer ✔✔True; The unique focus of epidemiology is upon the occurrence of health and disease in the
population. Clinical medicine is concerned with the individual, e.g., diagnosis and treatment of specific
individuals.
Distinguish between the descriptive and analytic approaches to epidemiology. - correct answer
✔✔Descriptive epidemiology characterizes the amount and distribution of health and health
determinants in a population, while analytic epidemiology examines causal hypotheses regarding
associations between exposures and health conditions.
This famous person promoted the concept of multifactorial etiology. - correct answer ✔✔William Farr;
also contributed a classification system for disease.
A method for providing quantitative measurements of risks to health is known as: - correct answer
✔✔risk assessment
A pandemic is an epidemic occurring worldwide or crossing international boundaries. - correct answer
✔✔true
A population is defined as all of the inhabitants of a given country or area considered together. - correct
answer ✔✔True
Which of the following can be answered using epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔What are the risk
factors for contracting COVID-19?
How many people in the United States were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019?
Are older individuals more at risk for Alzheimer's Disease?
How many children contracted measles in 2018?
, All of the above!
Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determinants of health and diseases, morbidity,
injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. - correct answer ✔✔True
As discussed in your text and lecture video, epidemiologic studies can be categorized as "descriptive" or
"analytic". In 1-2 sentences, describe a research question related to COVID-19 that would be classified as
analytic epidemiology. - correct answer ✔✔How does exposure to asymptomatic cases of COVID-19
affect the number of cases of COVID-19 at the University of Maryland?
It is possible for a single case of a disease to represent an epidemic. - correct answer ✔✔True
Epidemiologic methods can be applied to which of the following public health-related fields? - correct
answer ✔✔health education, healthcare administration, environmental health
Which of the following is considered a use of epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔To study the workings
of health services in the community, To diagnose the dimensions and distributions of disease within a
community, To search for causes of disease and other health outcomes
Which of the following fields contribute to epidemiology? - correct answer ✔✔virology, psychology,
demography, biostatistics
True or False: an epidemic can refer to an infectious or chronic disease. - correct answer ✔✔true
What is the purpose of disease surveillance? Please select all that apply. - correct answer ✔✔obtain a
baseline level of disease occurrence in a population and identify peaks in disease occurrence
Which of the following may be an epidemiologic "population"? - correct answer ✔✔all individuals living
in the US, students living in dorms at UMD, alaskan resident counted in the US census, total patients at
Boston Children's Hospital
