Epidemiology

population medicine

Epidemiology is sometimes referred to as

Epidemiology

The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control health problems. The goal is to limit undesirable health events in a community.

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True or false? A primary care physician is concerned with the course of a disease in an individual, while an epidemiologist is concerned with the course of disease in a population.

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True or false? An endemic disease is one that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course.

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True or false? An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population defines a pandemic.

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True or false? People afflicted with a disease are referred to as cases.

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True or false? The rate of an illness in a population is the natality rate.

consistency

When using criteria of causation, the criterion that addresses the issue of whether the association been reported in a variety of people, exposed in a variety of setting, and can have repeatable results by other researchers is:

specificity

When using criteria of causation, the criterion that asks if the disease or health problem associated with the exposure is the only one is:

an odds ratio

A probability statement about the association between a particular disease and a specific risk factor is:

propagated epidemic curve

An epidemic curve depicting a distribution of cases traceable to multiple sources of exposure is a:

Epidemiologist

An investigator who studies the occurrence of disease or other health-related conditions or events in defined populations.

Pandemic

An outbreak of disease over a wide geographical area such as a continent. Example: Influenza of 1918

Epidemic

An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health related event in a particular population.

Endemic disease

Occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course. Example: malaria in Africa