Course Introduction
The minimum passing grade for the course is
What is 73%
A mortality rate limited to a particular age group. The numerator is the number of deaths in that age group; the denominator is the number of persons in that age group in the population.
What is age-specific mortality rate
Avoids the initial occurrence of a disease
What is primary prevention
The first to provide a description of disease
Who is Hippocrates
The group of individuals being studied
What is study population
The normal time/day for the Live Classroom Session for this course
What is Monday @ 9:00am CST / 10:00am EST
The resistance of a group to invasion and spread of an infectious agent, based on the resistance to infection of a high proportion of individual members of the group. The resistance is a product of the number susceptible and the probability that those who are susceptible will come into contact with an infected person
What is herd immunity
Three types of prevention: primary, secondary and tertiary
What is levels of prevention
The first person to practice modern epidemiology
Who is John Snow
Countries in the process of establishing an economic and medical infrastructure to support health
What is developing countries
The Library Resource that can assist with formatting in-text citations and a Reference page
What is NoodleTools
A measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval of time.
What is mortality rate
What is clinical
The 1845 epidemic for which John Snow is most well known was an outbreak of
What is Cholera
The method of gathering data on combinations of certain symptoms
What is syndromic surveillance
The last day of the course
What is Sunday February 16th
The aspect of epidemiology concerned with organizing and summarizing health-related data according to time, place, and person.
What is descriptive epidemiology
The biological cause of a problem or disease
What is etiology
Epidemiology deals with
What is the occurrence, pattern, and frequency of disease in a population
Four rules that establish the causal relationship between an infectious agent and a particular infection
What is Koch's postulates
The due Course Project is due
What is Sunday February 9th @ 11:59pm CST in Module 05
The proportion of persons with clinical disease, who after becoming infected, become severely ill or die.
What is virulence
The upper end of the normal endemic level of infections
What is epidemic threshold
Another term for incubation period, or the period between when the person was exposed to the contagion and when they begin to develop symptoms of disease
What is latent period
Work conducted by Robert Koch was essential in proving what theory
What is the germ theory