HSC 404 Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Graded A+
Description of specific signs and symptoms in a patient - Answers Which of the following activities
characterizes a clinical approach (as opposed to an epidemiologic approach)?
To fund new public health programs - Answers Which of the following is not usually an aim of
epidemiology?
False - Answers John Snow is credited with developing the smallpox vaccination.
False - Answers In current thinking, the term epidemic is used only to describe outbreaks of infectious
disease.
True - Answers The 2009-2010 episode of influenza first identified in the United States and eventually
called 2009 H1N1 influenza was classified as a pandemic by WHO in summer 2009.
True - Answers Koch published Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose in 1882, a breakthrough that led to
improved classification of disease by specific causal organisms
False - Answers The study of diseases linked to harmful physical energy, such as ionizing radiation, would
be outside the scope of epidemiology
Was an early epidemiologist who used natural experiments - Answers John Snow, author of Snow on
Cholera:
True - Answers The Framingham Heart Study, begun in 1948, pioneered research into coronary heart
disease risk factors
True - Answers The epidemiologic and clinical descriptions of a disease are different.
A new epidemic disorder - Answers Increases in lung cancer mortality, especially among women,
illustrate which of the following trends in disease occurrence?
2. Tertiary Prevention
1. Secondary Prevention
3. Primary Prevention Passive
4. Primary Prevention Active - Answers Indicate the level of prevention that is represented in questions
1 through 4.
, 2. Half-way houses for persons recovering from addiction
1. Screening for breast cancer
3. Pasteurization of milk
4. Nutritional counseling for pregnant women
A.
Is related to the number of unhealthy days in U.S. states.
B.
Represents complete income inequality when it is 1.
C.
Is a measure of income inequality.
D.
Ranges from 1 to 2.
E.
Varies across states in the U.S.
Answer: D. - Answers Choose the incorrect answer. The Gini index:
Prepathogenesis - Answers According to the natural history of disease model, the time before the
precursors of disease and the host interact is called the period of
They interest the public and physicians concerned with preventive medicine. - Answers There has been
an increase in the number of epidemiologic studies reported in medical journals because
A.
Primary
Description of specific signs and symptoms in a patient - Answers Which of the following activities
characterizes a clinical approach (as opposed to an epidemiologic approach)?
To fund new public health programs - Answers Which of the following is not usually an aim of
epidemiology?
False - Answers John Snow is credited with developing the smallpox vaccination.
False - Answers In current thinking, the term epidemic is used only to describe outbreaks of infectious
disease.
True - Answers The 2009-2010 episode of influenza first identified in the United States and eventually
called 2009 H1N1 influenza was classified as a pandemic by WHO in summer 2009.
True - Answers Koch published Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose in 1882, a breakthrough that led to
improved classification of disease by specific causal organisms
False - Answers The study of diseases linked to harmful physical energy, such as ionizing radiation, would
be outside the scope of epidemiology
Was an early epidemiologist who used natural experiments - Answers John Snow, author of Snow on
Cholera:
True - Answers The Framingham Heart Study, begun in 1948, pioneered research into coronary heart
disease risk factors
True - Answers The epidemiologic and clinical descriptions of a disease are different.
A new epidemic disorder - Answers Increases in lung cancer mortality, especially among women,
illustrate which of the following trends in disease occurrence?
2. Tertiary Prevention
1. Secondary Prevention
3. Primary Prevention Passive
4. Primary Prevention Active - Answers Indicate the level of prevention that is represented in questions
1 through 4.
, 2. Half-way houses for persons recovering from addiction
1. Screening for breast cancer
3. Pasteurization of milk
4. Nutritional counseling for pregnant women
A.
Is related to the number of unhealthy days in U.S. states.
B.
Represents complete income inequality when it is 1.
C.
Is a measure of income inequality.
D.
Ranges from 1 to 2.
E.
Varies across states in the U.S.
Answer: D. - Answers Choose the incorrect answer. The Gini index:
Prepathogenesis - Answers According to the natural history of disease model, the time before the
precursors of disease and the host interact is called the period of
They interest the public and physicians concerned with preventive medicine. - Answers There has been
an increase in the number of epidemiologic studies reported in medical journals because
A.
Primary
