For Cohort studies, which type of measure of association do we typically use?
What is relative risk?
100
What is it called when study participants from a case group are individually paired with a participant much like them in a control group?
What is individual matching?
100
What can be said about the durations of infectious diseases?
What is usually short?
200
What is the name of a standard life table that is represented by a stair-case model?
What is the Kaplan-Meier Life Table?
200
What term do we use to calculate the number of new cases of a disease in an existing population?
What is incidence?
200
The change from lots of infectious diseases to chronic diseases is what transition?
What is an epidemiologic transition?
200
What type of risk factors include DNA, age, and ethnicity?
What are Non-Modifiable risk factors?
200
The five characteristics of a good screening test include: simple, rapid, acceptable, inexpensive, and what?
What is safe?
300
What is the formula for Negative Predictive Value?
What is (d)/(c+d)?
300
What is the formula for Food-Specific Attack Rate?
What is (ill)/(ill+well)?
300
What is the ability of a test to correctly identify those who have the disease?
What is sensitivity?
300
The formula (b)/(c) represents the Odds Ratio formula in what situation?
What is Matched Case-Control study?
300
What is it called when researchers ascribe group characteristics to individuals within a study?
What is an ecologic fallacy?
400
What is the formula used to determine the relationship between Prevalence, Incidence, and the Duration of Disease?
What is P=ID?
400
What is the name of the bias when people with the disease tend to remember more exposures than people without the disease?
What is recall bias?
400
What type of study determines their disease status and exposure simultaneously, usually by means of a survey?
What is a Cross-Sectional Study?
400
What is the ability of a measuring instrument to give consistent results on repeated trials?
What is reliability?
400
What is the name of the Hindu goddess that was said to spread Smallpox?
Who is Sitala?
500
What is the name of the disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis and killed roughly 1/3 to 1/2 of Europe's population in the 1300's?
What is the Black Plague?
500
Which hypothesis states that humans and microorganisms co-evolved and now they are essential for human regulation?
What is the Hygiene Hypothesis or "Old Friends?
500
Which hypothesis states that non-hereditary, non-germinal mutations need two somatic "hits" to cause disease while hereditary, germinal mutations need only one "hit".
What is the Two Hit Hypothesis?
500
A screening test is an example of which type of prevention?
What is secondary prevention?
500
What is the formula for Incidence of the Population when discussing risk?