Epidemiology: Decoding The Science Of Public Health (PUBH – 6035 – 2) Module 1

Question 1

1. Epidemiology involves studying infectious communicable disease, not events like injury, obesity, mental health disorders, and seat belt use.

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Question 2

1. The Framingham study was a:

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Question 3

1. Epidemiology includes the study of:

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Question 4

1. The definition of epidemiology involves all of the following EXCEPT:

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Question 5

1. Who evaluated the Bills of Mortality?

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Question 6

1. Who helped to establish the germ theory of disease?

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Question 7

1. Who showed that poor diet could result in scurvy?

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Question 8

1. The web of causation includes host and environmental determinants.

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1.6 points

Question 9

1. A cause of disease is an event, condition, or characteristic that preceded the disease and without which the disease would either not have occurred or would have occurred later.

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Question 10

1. Which sequence below represents the chronological evolution of disease causation approaches in epidemiology (from oldest to newest)?

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Question 11

1. Which of the following are essential attributes of causes (choose all that apply)?

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Question 12

1. How much of the increase in U.S. life expectancy since the 20th century can be attributed to public health improvements?

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Question 13

1. The purpose of disease surveillance is to monitor aspects of dsease occurrence that are pertinent to effective control.

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1.6 points

Question 14

1. John Snow used mortality data developed by William Farr to test a hypothesis that cholera was spread by contaminated water.

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1.6 points

Question 15

1. Which of the following innovations did The Streptomycin Tuberulosis Trial employ (choose all that apply)?