QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
The definition of epidemiology involves all the following, except:
Select one:
A. Study of determinants.
B. Study of disease frequency.
C. Study of disease patterns.
D. Health-related states or events.
E. All of these are included in the definition of epidemiology. - CORRECT
ANSWER E. All of these are included in the definition of epidemiology.
Who advanced useful treatment and remedies (which other physicians rejected at the time)
such as exercise, fresh air, and a healthy diet?
Select one:
A. Hippocrates
B. John Graunt
C. James Lind
D. Thomas Sydenham - CORRECT ANSWER D.Thomas Sydenham
In the definition of epidemiology, "distribution" refers to which of the following?
Select one:
A. Time and place
B. Heaven and earth
C. Frequency and pattern
D. Cause and effect - CORRECT ANSWER C.
Frequency and pattern
Refers to the benefits of a treatment, procedure, or service among those who use it in contrast
to those who do not.
, Select one:
A. Efficacy
B. Effectiveness
C. Validity
D. Healthy participant effect - CORRECT ANSWER A.Efficacy
Which of the following is an example of active primary prevention?
Select one:
A. Eating vitamin-enriched foods
B. Screening for breast cancer
C. Exercise
D. Automatic sprinklers in a home to put out a fire - CORRECT ANSWER C.Exercise
Completing the clinical picture involves all the following, except:
Select one:
A. identifying who is susceptible to disease.
B. identifying types of exposures capable of causing disease.
C. identifying the effectiveness of the public health problem.
D. identifying probable outcomes.
E. All of these are part of completing the clinical picture. - CORRECT ANSWER C.
identifying the effectiveness of the public health problem.
A subclinical case is the same as which of the following?
Select one:
A. Incubatory carrier
B. Intermittent carrier
C. Convalescent carrier
D. Healthy carrier - CORRECT ANSWER D.
Healthy carrier