1. Epidemiology can be applied to any aspect of human health, including:
a. All types of diseases
b. Disabilities
c. The utilization and outcomes of health services
d. Good health
e. All of the above
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2. Epidemiology is the science of the __________ of disease and its __________.
a. symptoms and environment
b. distribution and determinants
c. clinical history and complications
d. organisms and spread
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3. The main purpose of epidemiology is to:
a. develop research projects and obtain funding for them
b. discover new prevention methods and cures for diseases
c. understand the causes of health problems and guide efforts to improve health
d. find out who is responsible for an outbreak and punish them
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4. The American Public Health Association (APHA) defines three key terms used to describe basic patterns of infectious disease occurrence:
a. epidemic
b. endemic
c. parasitic
d. pandemic
e. a, b, d
f. all of the above
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5. Endemic disease levels are measured by ongoing surveillance systems, with some fluctuations occurring.
True
False
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6. Fill in the blank. The transition from endemic to __________ can happen in days, weeks, months, or even years, depending on the disease.
a. sporadic
b. epidemic
c. zoonotic
d. epidermic
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7. The term epidemiology is used to refer both to: A method of study of diseases, and a body of knowledge about the natural history of a disease.
True
False
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8. Fill in the blank. The natural history of a disease is a description of how that disease “behaves” and what factors affect its __________.
a. virulence and transmission
b. collection and analysis
c. cause and effect
d. incidence and distribution
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9. John Snow, a British scientist, did pioneering work during a cholera outbreak in London in 1854. He identified the cause of the outbreak by:
a. determining the water sources of various neighborhoods
b. testing the drinking water
c. calculating cholera death rates in neighborhoods with different water sources
d. doing autopsies on the cholera victims
e. a and c
f. all of the above
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10. Disease is a result of the interaction of
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, and
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11. All diseases are highly influenced by the same set of factors.
True
False
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Fill in the blank. Disease organisms may have complex lifecycles that pass through several different __________.
a. laboratories
b. hosts
c. time zones
d. hospitals
e. all of the above
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