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HLTH 4200 Final Exam 1 Answers (Walden) 1. The London cholera epidemic of 1848 was traced to the Broad Street pump by whom? 2. Epidemiology is concerned with all of the following EXCEP... T: 3. What factors comprise the epidemiologic triangle? 4. The site where a disease agent enters the body is the _______. 5. Match the following methods of direct transmission of an infectious disease with their definition. 6. Vaccination is an example of what type of prevention? 7. Health education programs about the hazards of starting smoking are examples of secondary prevention. 8. The Centers for Disease Control published an article concerning the high rate of foot fungal disease in New Orleans. The article explains that there has been a high rate of foot fungal disease in New Orleans for decades. Foot fungal disease in New Orleans is best described as ______________. 9. In the definition of epidemiology, the terms "distribution" and "determinants" taken together refer to: 10. During the second week of February, 87 persons in a small community (population 460) attended a social event that included a meal prepared by several of the participants. Within 3 days, 39 of the participants became ill with a condition diagnosed as salmonellosis.

The attack rate among participants was ________. 11. When thinking about the quality of data reported for cases of relatively mild diseases, which of the following is true? 12. Cautious use of information from death certificates is warranted because: 13. Which of the following are characteristics of descriptive epidemiology? 14. Cyclic variations in the occurrence of disease may reflect: 15. Successful treatment programs that would shorten the duration of a disease primarily affect: 16. The major disadvantage of crude rates is that: 17. An epidemiologic survey of roller-skating accidents in Juneau, Alaska, a city with a population of 100,000, produced the following: 18. An epidemiologic survey of roller-skating accidents in Juneau, Alaska, a city with a population of 100,000, produced the following: 19. One strength that cross-sectional and ecological studies share is that: 20. A cross-sectional study allows the demonstration of a time sequence between exposure and disease. 21. Controls are needed in a case-control study to evaluate whether the frequency of a factor or past exposure among the cases is different from that among comparable persons who do not have the disease under investigation. 22. Case-control studies are among the best observational designs to study diseases of: 23. Cohort studies enable the investigator to study cause and effect because the temporality of exposure and disease is known. 24. Used in cohort studies, the relative risk is a measure of the strength of association between a possible risk factor and a disease. 25. Which of the following conditions is NOT necessary in order to use the odds ratio to estimate the relative risk? 26. To investigate the association between Kawasaki syndrome (KS) and carpet shampoo, 100 controls (100 children without KS) were incorporated into design. Among 100 children with KS, 50 gave a history of recent exposure to carpet shampoo. Among those without KS, 25 gave a history of recent exposure to carpet shampoo 27. The lack of individual level information in an ecologic study leads to a limitation known as the: 28. The two-by-two table shown below summarizes the relationship between consumption of (exposure to) potato salad and illness. [Show More]

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