Epidemiology
The Study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations.
What is Epidemiology?
The first step in an outbreak investigation, which involves verifying the diagnosis and confirming the outbreak.
What is Case Definition?
The average value of a set of numbers.
What is Mean?
A single-celled organism that can cause various diseases.
What is Bacteria?
In what year did the Great Plague of London occur, killing an estimated 100,000 people?
1665-1666
A measure of the frequency with which an event occurs in a defined population over a specified period.
What is Rate?
A systematic and ongoing collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data.
What is Surveillance?
The middle value in a set of numbers when they are arranged in order.
What is Median?
A microscopic organism that replicates within a host cell.
What is a Virus?
Fe
The number of new cases of a disease that occur during a specified period in a population at risk for the disease.
What is Incidence?
A graphical display of the distribution of cases by time of onset.
What is an Epidemic Curve?
The most frequently occurring value in a set of numbers.
What is Mode?
A living organism that can cause disease.
What is a Pathogen?
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, depicting biblical scenes?
Michelangelo
The proportion of individuals in a population who have a particular disease or attribute at a specified point in time.
What is Prevalence?
A common source of outbreaks where the exposure is brief and all cases become ill within one incubation period.
What is a Point Source Outbreak?
A measure of the strength of the association between two variables.
What is Correlation?
A disease-causing fungus.
What is a Mycosis?
What is the largest land predator on Earth?
Polar Bear
A type of study that compares individuals with a particular condition or outcome of interest (cases) with individuals without the condition (controls).
What is Case-Control Study?
An outbreak that spreads from person to person within a household, social group, or other defined population.
What is a Propagated Outbreak?
A statistical measure that indicates the likelihood that an observed difference between groups is real and not due to chance.
What is p-value?
A single-celled eukaryotic organism that can cause diseases like malaria.
What is a Protozoa?
In which country did the ancient civilization of the Maya flourish?
Mexico and Central America.