Basic Concepts
Historical Figures
Terms
Study Designs
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
These individuals are interested in learning about the causal relationships between disease
Who are Epidemiologists?
100
This man subjected his own daughter to cowpox because he observed dairymaids who contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox
Who is Edward Jenner?
100
HIV/AIDS binds to these molecules on the surface of white blood cells
What are CD4?
100
These are used to prevent and control disease/injury
What is the study design?
200
These diseases are always present in a community, usually at a low, more or less constant, frequency
What are endemics?
200
This woman broke the glass ceiling and was a pioneer in toxicology
Who is Alice Hamilton?
200
A doorknob, Linens, and a bird are examples of _____ where infectious diseases live, multiplies a grows
What is a reservoir?
oir?
200
These studies describe the association between disease and outcome
What are analytical studies?
300
This is the measure of the proportion of new individuals in a population that have a disease or other health outcomes of interest at a specific point in time
What is the Incidence?
300
She conducted the first study investigating the association between smoking and lung cancer
Who is Florence Nightingale?
300
These bacteria, viruses, or microorganisms can cause disease
What are pathogens?
300
This study design comes from the Latin word, meaning enclosure or company
What is a cohort study?
400
The incubation period, stage of susceptibility and the stage of recovery are parts of this concept
What is Epidemiological Timeline?
400
Not only did they discover that the incidence of puerperal fever could be cut, they also conducted a study on the incidence of lung cancer
Who are Doll and Hill?
400
This study is the most frequent type of analytical study design that is also called case-referent studies
What is a case-control study?
400
The ideal version of this study is a geographically defined, representative sample of the population in a slice of time and space
what are cross-sectional studies?
500
These diseases, like HIV and cancer, are not transmitted directly from one person to another
What are non-communicable diseases?
500
He recorded descriptive characteristics of birth and death, infant mortality and excess male over female mortality
Who is John Gaunt?
500
The host, agent and ________ are all part of the Epidemiologic Triangle
What is Environment?
500
Experimental studies define a population suitable for answering the question, or hypothesis, but are also called what
What are Clinical Trials?
500
In the film, Contagion, doors, bus poles, and glasses were all objects that could carry the infection
What are Fomites?