The Approach & Evolution of Epidemiology
This is the analysis of disease patterns according to the characteristics of person, place, and time, or in other words, who is getting a disease, where it is occurring, and how it is changing over time:
Disease distribution
This is the name for a population whose membership is permanent:
Fixed population
This is taken every 10 years in the United States.
Census
The occurrence of cases of disease in excess of what would normally be expected in a given area or among a specific group of people.
Outbreak
The viruses the MMR vaccine protects against:
Measles, mumps, rubella
Considered one of the founders of epidemiology, he discovered which water pump in London was causing residents to become sick and die from Cholera
John Snow
This measures the frequency of existing disease.
Prevalence
This publishes data on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths in the United States.
What are vital statistics or the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics?
A detailed report on a group of patients with similar symptoms or problem.
Popular 80s toy that challenges the user to align colors along a 3-dimensional square
Rubik's Cube
The multidisciplinary field whose goal is to promote the health of the population through organized community efforts.
Public Health
A type of calculation where the entities represented by the two numbers are not required to be related to one another.
Ratio
Since 1985, the CDC has collected information on the occurrence of these cases from 50 states?
HIV
A study that examines rates of disease in relation to a population-level or geographical factor.
Ecological study
What is the only planet in the solar system not named after a Greek or Roman god?
Earth
These type of scientists study diseases in the laboratory setting by conducting experiments on cells, tissues, and animals.
Basic scientists
This type of data organization includes an exposure and unexposed group.
2 x 2 table
What WHO stands for:
World Health Organization
These studies compare the rates of disease among natives of a homeland to rates among immigrants and among natives of the adopted country.
Migrant studies
What is the most popular game-day dip in the United States?
Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in humans populations and the application of this study to control health problem.
Epidemiology
These are summary measures of disease frequency that are based on raw data.
Crude rates
his survey collects information on the immunization coverage of children in the United States.
What is the National Immunization Survey?
A study or survey that examines the relationship between an exposure and disease at a single point in time.
Cross-sectional studies
The Statue of Liberty was gifted to America by which country
France