Disease Control & Prevention
What is an example of a primary prevention strategy for lung cancer?
Smoking Cessation
What is the chance of an adverse event?
What is the general purpose of screenings
Identify risk factors and/or identify disease in the earliest stages
Can causality ever be proved?
Which epidemiological method uses the person-place-time model?
Descriptive Epidemiology
What 3 concepts make up the epidemiological triangle?
Environment, Host, and Agent
Name at least one specific risk factor
What is smoking, genetics, age, or environment?
What type of prevention is screening?
What is surveillance?
Ongoing collection of data
True/False: Cross-sectional studies are used to determine the exact cause of a disease.
When did formal epidemiological techniques develop?
Nineteenth century during the plague
Name at least one thing you can do to reduce risks
What is nutrition, exercising, or supplements?
The test’s ability to detect clients with the disease
What’s the purpose of policy development?
Improve community health
Which type of study would be better at determining the cause of a disease: cross-sectional, retrospective, or prospective?
Prospective