Definitions
The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states in specified populations, and the application of this study to control of health problems
What is epidemiology?
An organism in which disease occurs.
What is the host?
Examining the distribution of disease in a population and observing the basic features of its distribution; in terms of person, place or time
What is descriptive epidemiology?
Consists of activities directed towards decreasing the probability of specific illnesses or dysfunction in individuals, families and communities
What is prevention?
True or false. Epidemiologists are medical scientists who investigate and describe factors that influence the development of disease, disability, and other health outcomes. They formulate means for prevention and control.
What is true?
The rate of new (or newly diagnosed) cases of the disease
What is incidence?
A contagious or non-contagious power that causes a health concern
What is the agent?
Testing a hypothesis about the cause of disease by studying how exposures relate to the disease
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Name this type of prevention: Action taken to prevent disease, defect or injury
What is primary prevention?
True or false. Epidemiologists provide expertise in the design, management and evaluation of study protocols and health status questionnaires, sample selection and analysis.
What is true?
The actual number of cases alive, with the disease during a period of time.
What is prevalence?
According to the epidemiology model, this is needed for disease to happen?
What is the interaction of the agent, host, and environment
The three essential characteristics that we look for in descriptive studies
What are person, place and time ?
Reasonable evidence there is a connection between a stressor (environmental factor) and a health issue (or disease)
What is association?
A government agency many epidemiologists work at.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention?
The number of deaths occurring among the population of a given geographical area during a given year, per 1,000 mid-year total population of the given geographical area during the same year
What is crude death rate?
This can move between an agent and host, causing spread of the disease.
What is a vector? ex a tick or mosquito
Descriptive epidemiology focuses on the ______ and distribution of states of health within a population.
What is the frequency?
Name this type of prevention: Early identification and intervention
What is secondary prevention?
True or false. To become an epidemiologist you do not need a master's degree from a school of public health.
What is false? In some cases, you might need a PhD or a medical degree, depending on the work you will do.
The characteristics of the individual, which interact with the agents, and environments determines this in each person.
What is risk or susceptibility?
Instead of using a triangle to illustrate the interaction of host-agent-environment, this logic diagram, consisting of interlocking circles can be used
What is a Venn diagram?
All cases of disease/health condition/deaths that exist at a particular point in time
What is Point Prevalence ?
Name this type of prevention: Where the disease is well established, efforts are directed towards rehabilitation and adapting the patient to the disability
What is tertiary prevention?
What is meticulous, analytical, logical, sensitive to other cultures, able to work independently or in groups, along with excellent communication skills and a strong desire to help people?