Quiz 1

A disgruntled coworker infects a box of pastries with dysentery, causing several staff to become ill. This is an example of:

Bioterrorism

Drug companies are typically non-profit agencies and do not benefit when academics publish articles about the effectiveness of their drugs.

False

The poor have the highest rates of disease and disability of any socioeconomic group, demonstrating their greater biological disposition toward illness.

False

Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was mainly due to:

Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation

With the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had to take which approach to medical care?

"Whole person" care.

The germ theory of disease is a perspective which asserts:

Diseases are caused by a biological agent.

There are two categories of bioterrorism:

Overt and covert.

The appearance of the West Nile virus in New York city reflects:

The role of globalization in the spread of infectious diseases.

In which study were syphilis patients intentionally not treated and allowed to die?

Tuskegee.

The first stage of the Epidemiological Transition was characterized by ____ rates of ___________.

high ; infectious diseases