What is a marker of health status (physical or mental disease, impairment or disability and social well-being)?
100
The epidemiological and vital statistics term for death
What is morality?
100
Crude Mortality Rate
What is the first and most basic measure of death?
100
This involves observation, definitions, measurements, interpretations, and dissemination of health-related sates or events by person, place and time
What is descriptive epidemiology?
100
This is what the risk ratio is also called
What is relative risk?
200
A community's ability to cope with natural disasters that may adversely affect reproduction
What is resiliency?
200
In many countries. laws require the registration of these vital events
What are births, deaths, marriages, divorces and fetal deaths?
200
A key measure of the the health status of a community or population
What is infant mortality rate?
200
This is a profile of an individual
What is a case report?
200
PAR = Ie-Io
What is Population-attribuable risk?
300
These are in constant state of change
What are social health issues?
300
(1) degeneration of vital organs and related conditions, (2) disease states, (3) society or the environment (homicide, accidents, disasters, etc.
What are the causes of death in our society?
300
The reason why postneonatal mortality rate is an important measure to track in less developed countries
What is because the rates are influenced primarily by malnutrition and infectious diseases?
300
This involves making comparisons between variables where the unit of analysis is aggregated data on the population level rather than on the individual level
What is an ecologic study?
300
This can be used to limit generalization and improve feasibility and focus
What is restriction?
400
(# of live births during a specified time period / population from which the births occurred) x 1000
What is birth rate?
400
This standard diagnostic classification system is used for mortality statistics
What is the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)?
400
(# of fetal deaths after 20 weeks gestation / # of live births plus fetal deaths) x 1000
What is fetal death rate?
400
The four types of data
What are nominal, ordinal, discrete, continuous?
400
A circumstance in which researchers lose contact with study participants, resulting in unavailable outcome data
What is loss to follow-up?
500
(# of live births during a specified time period / population of women 15-49) x 1000
What is fertility rate?
500
This is entered first on the death certificate
What is cause of death?
500
This is the measure of the relative impact of various health-related states or events on a population
What is Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)?
500
Attack rate
What is (new cases occurring during a short time period / population at risk at the beginning of the time period) x 100
500
Useful when distinct cohorts have different or rare exposures
What are the strengths of a double cohort study design?