TEST BANK FOR GORDIS EPI
PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
True or False: Stroke was number 1 killing cause of death in the United States in 1900.
- ANS-False
True or False: Prevention and treatment should not be viewed as mutually exclusive
activities. - ANS-True
True or False: We need 95 percent or over immunization rates to achieve herd immunity
to infectious diseases in a population. - ANS-False
Which of the following is characteristic of single-exposure, common-vehicle outbreak?
(1) Frequent secondary cases
(2) Explosive
(3) Cases include both people who have been exposed and those who were not
exposed
(4) Increasing severity with increasing age
(5) All of the above - ANS-(2) Explosive
True or False: A key assumption of epidemiology is that states of health/disease are not
randomly distributed within populations. - ANS-True
True or False: Analytical epidemiology studies the associations between exposure
factors and diseases. - ANS-True
True or False: Descriptive epidemiology is focused on hypothesis testing. - ANS-False
True or False: Although it is extremely important for us to maximize our knowledge of
the biology and pathogenesis of disease, it is not always necessary to know every detail
of the pathogenic mechanism to be able to prevent a disease. - ANS-True
True or False: Number of susceptible versus immune persons exposed is an important
determinant of disease outbreaks. - ANS-True
True or False: Symptoms of a disease always develop immediately after inoculation or
infection. - ANS-False
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