Topic Questions
1 What is Demography? 1. What is demography?
a. What are demographers?
2. What is epidemiology?
3. Why are these 2 important for public health?
4. What is population distribution?
5. What are social and economic characteristics?
6. What is the demographic transition?
7. What are the 4 stages of the transition?
8. What is the epidemiological transition?
9. How do the demographic and epidemiological transition correlate?
2 Migration 10. What is migration?
11. What is immigration?
12. What is emigration?
13. What are asylum seekers?
14. What are refugees?
15. What are expats?
16. What are internally displaced individuals?
17. Why do people migrate?
a. Push factors
b. Pull factors
18. How does migration influence demography?
a. Positive or negative
19. How does migration tie to public health?
3 Dementia, Stroke & Depression 20. What is dementia?
a. Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
, 21. What is a stroke?
a. Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
22. What is depression?
a. Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
4 P(r)paying for health?! 23. What is socio-economic status?
24. What is mortality, morbidity & disability and SES?
25. What are the indicators of SES?
26. What issues do lower SES face?
27. What is resource-based?
28. What is prestige based?
29. What are SES inequalities?
30. What is inequality?
31. What is inequity
32. How does inequality impact policymakers?
33. How does inequality impact policies?
34. What is “interaction”?
35. What is effect modification
5 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo 36. What is good research?
37. What is good research quality?
38. What is internal validity?
39. What is external validity?
40. What are experimental designs?
a. Name a couple
41. What are observational designs?
a. Name a couple
42. What are systematic errors?
43. What are random errors?
44. What are the 3 main biases?