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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASE SURVEILLANCE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DISEASESURVEILLANCE EXAM QUESTIONS
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proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die within a certain period of time -
ANSWER-case fatality rate
model originally developed as a way of identifying causative factors, transmission and
risk related to infectious diseases - ANSWER-Epidemiologic triangle
that which causes the disease - bacteria - ANSWER-agent
person/animal contracting the disease - ANSWER-host
reflects more complex interrelationships among the numerous factors interacting to
increase risk of disease - ANSWER-web of causality/ causation
branch of epidemiology that studies the social distribution and social determinants of
health and disease - ANSWER-social epidemiology
systemic collection, analysis and interpreation of data related to the occurence of
disease and the health status of a give population
- Who got the disease?
- When did they get it?
- Where did they get it?
- What is the cause?
- Why did they get it? - ANSWER-disease surveillance
HCPs report cause of notifiable conditions to public health authorities using
standardized reports - ANSWER-passive surveillance
purposeful, ongoing search for new cases through individual contacts or review of lab
and hospital records (more expensive) - ANSWER-active surveillance
study of the distribution and determinants of health related events in human populations
and the application of this knowledge to improve health outcomes - ANSWER-
epidemiology
patterns of health events in population - ANSWER-distribution
factors that affect and determine the patterns - ANSWER-determinants
when thee rate of diseases exceeds the usual level of that condition within a population
- ANSWER-epidemic
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