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Potpourri
100
The evolution from high birth and death rates and low life expectancy to low birth and death rates and high life expectancy.
What is demographic transition (M12).
100
In the 2x2 table, N represents this.
What is the sample total (M5, M8, M9)
100
T/F: The type of epidemiologic study design with the highest validity is the case study.
What is false--experimental has highest validity (M8-10)
100
This specialization in epidemiology focuses on diseases that occur within the healthcare setting.
What is healthcare epidemiology (M2, M6)
100
Any characteristic or event that increases or decreases the probability of disease, disability, death, or other adverse outcome.
What is an exposure. (M8)
200
This traces the long-term mortality decline in terms of changes in the cause of death.
What is epidemiologic transition? (M4, M12)
200
In the 2x2 table A represents these.
What are the people with disease who are exposed. (M5, M8, M9)
200
Outcomes or the results of a clinical trial are referred to as these.
What are clinical end points (M10)
200
This specialization of epidemiology focuses on the graphical analysis of disease clustering in time and space.
What is spatial epidemiology (M1)
200
T/F: In a case control study the odds ratio is only an estimate of the relative risk.
What is true. (M8-9)
300
T/F: Dementia is a type of Alzheimer's disease.
What is false. (M12)
300
In the 2x2 table "Disease Status" is represented by row or column data?
What is column data (M5, M8, M9)
300
Two types of intervention study designs include these.
What are controlled clinical trials and community trial/interventions (M10)
300
This specialization of epidemiology focuses on diseases caused by agents such as bacteria and viruses that are transmitted from person to person.
What is communicable disease epidemiology. (M2)
300
The number of deaths due to HIV in the US is an example of this type of rate.
What is cause-specific (mortality). (M4, M13)
400
T/F: Alzheimer's disease is easily diagnosed by standardized detection of biomarkers.
What is false.(M12)
400
In the 2x2 table "exposure status" is represented by row or column data?
What is row data (M5, M8, M9)
400
This is the method of choice for assigning subjects to the different arms of a clinical trial.
What is randomization (M10)
400
List other specializations in epidemiology not previously mentioned.
What are molecular, disaster, occupational, environmental, genetic, behavioral, social, psychosocial etc (M7, M9, M12, M13)
400
An interpretation of an Odds Ratio (OR) of 5 can be phrased this way.
What is cases are 5 times more likely than controls to be exposed to the factor of interest (M8)
500
Examples of diseases that have associated behavioral risk factors.
What are cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, obesity, diabetes, cancers, etc. (M5, M7, M13)
500
In the 2x2 table, B+D represents this.
What is the total number of people without disease. (M5, M8, M9)
500
T/F: Clinical trials are used to evaluate the efficacy of large-scale public health interventions.
What is false. Community trials (M10)
500
Employee health and workforce-related injuries/illnesses would be studied by this epidemiology specialty.
What is occupational epidemiology (M9)
500
Epidemiologic study designs that capture exposure and disease data at the level of the individual.
What are cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort (M8, M9). RCT (M10)