The Approach & Evolution of Epidemiology
The multidisciplinary field whose goal is to promote the health of the population through organized community efforts.
What is Public Health?
This is the name for a population whose membership is permanent:
What is a fixed population?
This is taken every 10 years in the United States.
What is the U.S. 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.
What is disease outbreak?
The name of the Hurricane that made landfall in Florida as a category 4 at the end of September 2024
`What is Hurricane Helene?
The study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in humans populations and the application of this study to control health problem.
What is Epidemiology?
A type of calculation where the entities represented by the two numbers are not required to be related to one another.
What is a ratio?
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.
What is case series/study?
Names of the two Vice Presidential nominees:
Senator JD Vance & Governor Tim Walz
Refers to the analysis of disease patterns according to characteristics of person, place, and time.
What is disease distribution?
This measures the frequency of existing disease.
What is prevalence?
Since 1985, the CDC has collected information on the occurrence of these cases from 50 states?
What is HIV?
A study that examines rates of disease in relation to a population-level factor.
What are ecologic studies?
These type of scientists study diseases in the laboratory setting by conducting experiments on cells, tissues, and animals.
This type of data organization includes an exposure and unexposed group.
What is a two-by-two table?
Has reported international morbidity and mortality data since 1951.
What is WHO?
These studies compare the rates of disease among natives of a homeland to rates among immigrants and among natives of the adopted country.
What are migrant studies?
Popular 80s toy that challenges the user to align colors along a 3-dimensional square
What is Rubik's Cube?
This founder of modern epidemiology was a compiler for the Statistical Abstracts for the General Registry Office in Great Britain from 1839 through 1880.
Who is William Farr?
These are summary measures of disease frequency that are based on raw data.
What are crude rates?
This 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.
What are cross-sectional studies?
Name two of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom:
What are England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland?