HLTH 485 Quiz 1 Foundations
HLTH 485 Quiz 1: Foundations to Descriptive Epidemiology
- Application of the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in order to prevent and control health problems is not included in the role of epidemiology.
- Antibiotics are toxic to humans.
- The Chinese observed that getting a weaker strain of smallpox was protective against encountering a stronger form of the diseases. What is this called?
- In the epidemiology triangle, the term agent is equivalent to which of the following?
- Infectious disease is best defined as:
- What is an appropriate technique for adjusting for confounding when the dependent variable is dichotomous?
- In the United States, for which of the following is the age- adjusted cause-specific death rate for males least-similar to females?
- Married individuals have been shown to experience lower mortality than nonmarried individuals, regardless of the whether the nonmarried persons were never married, divorced, separated, or widowed.
- Who invented a vaccine against smallpox based on careful observation?
- We sometimes classify epidemics by how they spread through a population. Which of the following is NOT an example of a point source epidemic?
- Which of the following best defines a fomite?
- Who advanced useful treatment and remedies (which other physicians rejected at the time) such as exercise, fresh air, and a healthy diet?
- In the United States, for which disease is the age-adjusted death rate higher among Hispanics than Whites?
- Who developed and applied the case-control study design?
- In the United States, education has the largest impact on which of the following?
- Evaluation cannot be effectively performed in descriptive studies because of confounding.
- Whose report set forth the importance of establishing state and local boards of health in the United States?
- Which of the following is NOT a type of immunity?
- The correlation coefficient is useful for measuring associations among variables in ecologic studies.
- How does a proportion differ from a rate?
- Who used an experimental study design to determine that dietary factors were influential in treating and preventing scurvy?
- Which of the following best defines pathogen?
- A subclinical case is the same as which of the following?
- Completing the clinical picture involves all of the following, EXCEPT:
- Which of the following stages is associated with the incubation period?