Questions and Answers
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)
Edward Jenner - ANSWER - ____ is credited with the development of the smallpox vaccination,
a lower-risk method for conferring immunity against smallpox than variolation. (p. 27)