Week 2 Epidemiology quiz Questions and Answers
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1. Epidemiology: Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
that affect large numbers of people.
2. Outcomes: Variables that are monitored during a study to document the impact that a given intervention or
exposure has on the health education population
3. disease: a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific
signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
4. illness: a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual
5. sickness: state of illness
6. mortality: the state of being subject to death
7. Morbidity: the condition of suffering from a disease or medical condition/rate of disease
8. injury: physical harm or damage to someone's body
9. disability: a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.
10. infectious disease epidemiology: study of communicable diseases caused by a biological agent
11. chronic disease epidemiology: Study of long duration and slow progression diseases such as cancer
12. social and behavioral epidemiology: studies how social influences and behaviorl choices impact
health
13. occupational and environmental epidemiology: studies the impact of environmental factors
on health
14. molecular and genetic epidemiology: identifies inherites factors that influence disease
15. infectious disease: diseases that are contagious or caple of being comminicated or transmitted
16. epidemiologic triangle: agent, host, environment
17. agents of infectious disease: bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, arthropods, helminths
18. Fomite: A physical object that serves to transmit an infectious agent from person to person.
19. Vector: an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant
to another.
20. zoonotic disease: disease that can be passed between animals and humans
21. Infectivity: ability of the pathogen to invade and multiply in the host
22. Pathogenicity: ability to cause disease
23. Resistance: the ability to survives in adverse enviroments
24. toxin: produced by agents and cause illness
25. incubation period: time between infection with agent and and appearance of signs and symptoms of
disease
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1. Epidemiology: Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases
that affect large numbers of people.
2. Outcomes: Variables that are monitored during a study to document the impact that a given intervention or
exposure has on the health education population
3. disease: a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific
signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
4. illness: a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual
5. sickness: state of illness
6. mortality: the state of being subject to death
7. Morbidity: the condition of suffering from a disease or medical condition/rate of disease
8. injury: physical harm or damage to someone's body
9. disability: a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities.
10. infectious disease epidemiology: study of communicable diseases caused by a biological agent
11. chronic disease epidemiology: Study of long duration and slow progression diseases such as cancer
12. social and behavioral epidemiology: studies how social influences and behaviorl choices impact
health
13. occupational and environmental epidemiology: studies the impact of environmental factors
on health
14. molecular and genetic epidemiology: identifies inherites factors that influence disease
15. infectious disease: diseases that are contagious or caple of being comminicated or transmitted
16. epidemiologic triangle: agent, host, environment
17. agents of infectious disease: bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, arthropods, helminths
18. Fomite: A physical object that serves to transmit an infectious agent from person to person.
19. Vector: an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant
to another.
20. zoonotic disease: disease that can be passed between animals and humans
21. Infectivity: ability of the pathogen to invade and multiply in the host
22. Pathogenicity: ability to cause disease
23. Resistance: the ability to survives in adverse enviroments
24. toxin: produced by agents and cause illness
25. incubation period: time between infection with agent and and appearance of signs and symptoms of
disease
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