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COMMUNITY HEALTH EXAMQUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
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Purpose of Epidemiology in Community Health: - Answer--To understand health
problems in a population
-To control health problems or events through the application of this study.
-Population (community) = patient
Examples of health problems or events:
-____ exposures
-Infectious diseases and non-infectious disease
-Injuries
-____ disasters
-Terrorism - Answer-environmental, natural
Major communicable diseases in the US:
-COVID 19
-Hepatitis A
-____
-TB
-HIV/AIDS
-___ - Answer-influenza, pneumonia
National Trends in Communicable Disease:
New diseases:
-West Nile virus, ______ - Answer-Covid-19
Emerging diseases:
-Hantavirus, ____ fever, typhoid - Answer-dengue
Resurging diseases:
Escherichia coli-induced diarrhea, ___, Staphylococcus aureus infections, MDR
organisms, and ___ B, C, and D - Answer-TB, hepatitis
Controlled communicable diseases:
-Childhood immunizations >78%
-___ eradicated
-Yaws virtually disappeared
-Relapsing fever, ___ reduced
-___ close to elimination - Answer-smallpox, plague, leprosy
Uncontrolled communicable diseases:
, -Malaria, ___, TB, yellow fever - Answer-cholera
Ancient times: _____ (460-375 BCE)
-Rationale v. a supernatural perspective
-Observation: Time, seasons, environment, host
-How do disease develop and spread?
How to control disease? - Answer-Hippocrates
Middle Ages: 1348—___ Death (Bubonic plague)
-Possibly 1 million deaths
-____ pestis (19th century French scientist)
-Spread through bites or stings from insects or animals
-US plague in 1900 - Answer-Black, Yersinia
John Snow (1813-1858)
-____ in London
-mapping incidence
-intervention - Answer-cholera
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
-____ war
-Descriptive study of distribution & patterns of ___
-Compared to ill soldiers in London
-Wedged graphs to illustrate her findings - Answer-crimean, disease
Modern Epidemiology
Four distinct eras
o Causal thinking
o Sanitary statistics
-___ theory - malodorous / poison
o Infectious-disease epidemiology
-___ theory - Germ theory
•(Pasteur, Henle, Koch) - Answer-miasma, contagion
o ___-disease epidemiology
-Exposure related outcomes
-Advanced pharmacology & interventions - Answer-chronic
Eco-Epidemiology
-Global health patterns
o Route, form, virulence
o ___, ecologic, & human considerations
o Technologic and ___ influences - Answer-environmental, political
Advancements in Technology:
o Biology/Biomedical interventions and devices
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