Epidemiology 101 homework – Flashcards
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The probability that an event will occur- an individual will become ill or die within a stated period of time or by a certain age- is know as:
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Risk
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Which of the following is NOT considered a use of epidemiology?
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To provide healthcare services to specific individuals
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Causes of death are known as:
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Mortality
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Illness due to a specific disease or health condition is known as:
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Morbidity
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The English anesthesiologist who linked cholera outbreaks to contaminated water and innovated several of the key epidemiologic methods that remain valid and in use today was:
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John Snow
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Primary prevention is directed toward the later stages of pathogenesis and involves programs for restoring the patient's optimal functioning.
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False
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Directed towards the later stages of pathogenesis and includes programs for restoring patient's optimal functioning.
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Tertiary prevention
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Refers to a method of reducing healthcare costs by providing integrated care for chronic conditions.
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Disease management
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Involves the prevention of disease before it occurs.
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Primary prevention
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Takes place during the early phase of pathogenesis and includes activities that limit the progression of disease.
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Secondary prevention
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A shift in the patterns of morbidity and mortality from causes related primarily to infectious diseases and communicable diseases, but also relating to causes associated with chronic, degenerative diseases.
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Epidemiologic transitions
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The physician who determined that a human disease was caused by a specific living organism and proceeded to develop four postulates to demonstrate the association between a microorganism and a disease was:
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Robert Koch
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Which of the following is considered a key characteristic of epidemiology.
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All of the choices are correct: Distribution, population focus, quantification
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Which of the following disease outbreaks occurred between 1346 and 1352 and claimed up to one-third of the population in Europe:
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Black Death
