Intro to Epi/Surveillance & Data Sources
Which would NOT be considered an environmental characteristic?
a. Traffic noise
b. Marital status
c. Air pollution
d. Number of sunlight hours
b. Marital status
The term that refers to the number of deaths due to a disease that occur among person who are afflicted with that disease is:
a. Crude death rate
b. Case-fatality rate
c. Proportional mortality ratio
d. Years of potential life lost
b. Case-fatality rate
An ecological study about the relationship between per-capita juice sales and the annual mortality rate from diabetes in the 10 Canadian provinces may produce misleading results because you cannot tell if individuals who died from diabetes drank more juice than individuals who did not die from diabetes. True or False?
True
In the definition of epidemiology, “determinants” generally includes:
a. Agents
b. Causes
c. Control measures
d. Risk factors
e. All the above
e. All of the above
Controls are always selected from hospitals. True or False?
False
When are Case reports most useful?
a. When you encounter common cases and need more information
b. When new symptoms or outcomes are unidentified
c. When developing practice guidelines
d. When the population being studied is very large
b. When new symptoms or outcomes are unidentified
In the Natural History of Disease, in what stage is a disease usually diagnosed?
a. Stage of susceptibility
b. Stage of subclinical disease
c. Stage of clinical disease
d. Stage of recovery, disability or death
c. Stage of clinical disease
Diseases with short duration and/or high mortality would mean prevalence is greater than incidence. True or False?
Which is not an advantage of case reports?
a. Help identify new trends or diseases
b. Help detect drug side effects
c. Hypothesis generating
d. Identifies rare manifestations of a disease
e. All are advantages of case reports
e. All are advantages of case reports
What is a necessary cause?
a. A factor that contributes towards the disease but is not always present
b. A component that is present in some combinations of factors that produce disease
c. Any agent that is required for the development of a given disease
d. A combination of factors that will inevitably produce disease
c. Any agent that is required for the development of a given disease
List one example of an absolute measure
Attributable risk
OR
Population Attributable risk, etc.
Seniors visiting the library were asked to participate in a research study on the side effects of the Shingles vaccine. Individuals were asked if they had received the Shingles vaccine and were then followed-up for the next 2 years. What type of study is this?
a. Observational
b. Prospective cohort
c. Case-control
d. Experimental study
b. Prospective cohort