Epidemiology Exam 2 Questions And Answers
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The health indicator category that reflects poor reproductive health is:
a. Resiliency
b. Health resources
c. Functionality
d. Social involvement - ANSWER c. Functionality
The number of deaths due to pregnancy during a specified period, divided by live births
in the same period, and multiplied by 100,000 is the calculation for:
a. Neonatal mortality rate
b. Maternal mortality rate
c. Maternal mortality ratio
d. Perinatal mortality rate - ANSWER b. Matimal mortality rate
What is a marker of health status, service provision, or resource availability?
a. Birth rate
b. Mortality
c. Health indicator
d. Contraceptive prevalence - ANSWER c. Health indicator
Weaknesses of this type of study include the amount of time and money often required,
and the lack of feasibility with rare outcomes.
a. Cohort
b. Case-control
, c. Case-crossover
d. Nested case-control - ANSWER a. Cohort
An extrinsic factor that changes the level of association between an exposure and a
disease outcome is the:
a. Healthy worker effect
b. Effect modifier
c. Confounder
d. Risk ratio - ANSWER b. Effect modifier
A change and variation in disease in the population being studied as it moves through
time is the:
a. Healthy worker effect
b. Cohort study
c. Cohort effect
d. Prospective cohort study - ANSWER c. Cohort effect
Which study design allows for evaluating diseases with a long latency period and
evaluating the association of one or more exposure variables with a particular outcome?
a. Cohort
b. Case-control
c. Case-crossover
d. Nested case-control - ANSWER b. Case-control
Which of the following can make a study more feasible and less susceptible to biases?
a. Restriction
b. Systematic sampling
c. Effect modifier
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