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HLTH 503 Epidemiology - Answer- ____ is concerned with the occurrence, distribution, and determinants of "health-related states or events." (p. 8) Framingham Heart Study - Answer- The ongoing ____, begun in 1948, is one of the pioneering research investigations of risk factors for coronary he...

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Epidemiology - Answer- ____ is concerned with the occurrence, distribution, and
determinants of "health-related states or events." (p. 8)

Framingham Heart Study - Answer- The ongoing ____, begun in 1948, is one of the
pioneering research investigations of risk factors for coronary heart disease. (p. 41)

John Snow - Answer- ____ work, a classic study that linked the cholera epidemic to
contaminated water supplies, is noteworthy because it utilized many of the features
of epidemiologic inquiry: a spot map of cases and tabulation of fatal attacks and
deaths. (p. 30)

Determinants - Answer- ____ are factors or events that are capable of bringing about
a change in health. (p. 8)

Population - Answer- Epidemiology examines disease occurrence among ____
groups rather than among individuals. (p. 13)

Morbidity, Mortality - Answer- The former, ____, designates illness, whereas the
latter, ____, refers to death. (p. 14)

Quantification - Answer- ____ refers to the translation of qualitative impressions into
numbers. (p. 17)

Qualitative - Answer- ____ sources of information about disease may be, for
example, a physician's observations derived through medical practice about the
types of people among whom a disease seems to be common. (p. 17)

Epidemic - Answer- An ____ refers to an excessive occurrence of a disease. (p. 18)

Love Canal - Answer- ____ was a toxic waste disposal site located in Niagara Falls,
New York. It was the location for burial of thousands of chemical-filled drums
deposited by the Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corporation. (p. 20)

Pandemic - Answer- Related to the term epidemic is the term ____, which refers to
an epidemic on a worldwide scale. (p. 21)

Epidemic - Answer- The term ____ is used to characterize a disease that is
habitually present in a particular geographical region. (p. 21)

Surveillance - Answer- The word ____ denotes the systematic collection of data
pertaining to the occurrence of specific diseases, the analysis and interpretation of
these data, and the dissemination of consolidated and processed information to
contributors to the surveillance program and other interested persons. (p. 21)

Plague - Answer- During the medieval period, the Black Death, aka the ____ killed
more than 25% of the European population. (p. 23)

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