Epidemiology 1 2024/2025 Exam
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Illness due to a specific disease or health condition is known as: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Mobidity
The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health
behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
is known as - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Epidemic
T/F Epidemiology is an observational science that capitalizes on naturally
occurring situations. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F Epidemiology can help solve a variety of today's health-related problems,
ranging from smoking to youth violence. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
A method for providing quantitative measurements of risks to health is known
as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk assessment
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,Whether a contaminated food such as tomatoes caused an outbreak of
gastrointestinal disease is a simple example of: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a causal
association.
T/F John Graunt is said to be the first to employ quantitative methods to
describe population vital statistics. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Epidemiologic methods can be applied to which of the following public health-
related fields? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Health education
Healthcare administration
Environmental health
Which of the following is considered a key characteristic of epidemiology? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Distribution
Population focus
Quantification
T/F Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔True
T/F Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determinants of health
and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
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, T/F Alexander Fleming discovered the antimicrobial properties of Penicillium
notatum. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Which of the following is not considered a use of epidemiology? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔To provide healthcare services to specific individuals
T/F It is possible for a single case of a disease to represent an epidemic. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health
behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
is known as which of the following? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemic
T/F A pandemic is an epidemic occurring worldwide or crossing international
boundaries. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Any factor that brings about change in a health condition or other defined
characteristic is known as a(n): - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔determinants
T/F A population is defined as all of the inhabitants of a given country or area
considered together. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F The history of epidemiology originated as early as classical antiquity. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F Incidence and prevalence are interrelated concepts. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
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Illness due to a specific disease or health condition is known as: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Mobidity
The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health
behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
is known as - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Epidemic
T/F Epidemiology is an observational science that capitalizes on naturally
occurring situations. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F Epidemiology can help solve a variety of today's health-related problems,
ranging from smoking to youth violence. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
A method for providing quantitative measurements of risks to health is known
as: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk assessment
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Whether a contaminated food such as tomatoes caused an outbreak of
gastrointestinal disease is a simple example of: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a causal
association.
T/F John Graunt is said to be the first to employ quantitative methods to
describe population vital statistics. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Epidemiologic methods can be applied to which of the following public health-
related fields? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Health education
Healthcare administration
Environmental health
Which of the following is considered a key characteristic of epidemiology? -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Distribution
Population focus
Quantification
T/F Bubonic plague is a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔True
T/F Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determinants of health
and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
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, T/F Alexander Fleming discovered the antimicrobial properties of Penicillium
notatum. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Which of the following is not considered a use of epidemiology? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔To provide healthcare services to specific individuals
T/F It is possible for a single case of a disease to represent an epidemic. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
The occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness, specific health
behavior, or other health-related events clearly in excess of normal expectancy
is known as which of the following? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔epidemic
T/F A pandemic is an epidemic occurring worldwide or crossing international
boundaries. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
Any factor that brings about change in a health condition or other defined
characteristic is known as a(n): - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔determinants
T/F A population is defined as all of the inhabitants of a given country or area
considered together. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F The history of epidemiology originated as early as classical antiquity. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
T/F Incidence and prevalence are interrelated concepts. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔True
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