Public Health Seminar Unit 6 Epi

In epidemiology, "distribution" refers to all the following except:

• Who 
• When
• Where
• Why

In the definition of epidemiology "determinants" generally includes all except for:

• Agents
• Causes
• Control Measures
• Risk Factors

All are examples of a definition of epidemiology except for:

• Describing the demographic characteristics of persons with acute aflatoxin poisoning in District A.
• Prescribing an antibiotic to treat a patient with community- acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infection.
• Comparing the family history, amount of exercise, and eating habits of those with and without newly diagnosed diabetes 
• Recommending that a restaurant be closed after implicating it as the source of a hepatitis A outbreak.

John Snow's investigation of cholera is considered a model of epidemiologic field because it included all the following except:

• Biologically plausible hypothesis
• comparison of a health outcome among exposed and unexposed groups.
• multivariate statistical model
• recommendation for public health action after creating a spot map.

Public health surveillance includes which of the following activities:

• Diagnosing whether a case of encephalitis is actually due to West Nile virus infection.
• Soliciting case reports of persons with symptoms compatible with SARs from local hospitals
• Creating graphs of the number of dog bites by week and neighborhood
• Writing a report on trends in seat belt use to share with the state legislature

The epidemiologic triad of disease causation refers to:

• agent, host, environment
• time, person, place
• Source, mode of transmission, susceptible host
• John Snow, Robert Koch, Kenneth Rothman

Usually 40–50 cases per week. Low to moderate level of disease in given area

• Endemic
• Epidemic
• Outbreak
• Pandemic

Sudden increase in occurrences of a disease in a particular time and place. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire continent. Usually no more than 2–4 cases per week.

• Endemic
• Epidemic
• Pandemic 
• Outbreak

Level greater than what is expected in several countries and regions worldwide.

• pandemic
• epidemic
• outbreak 
• endemic

level greater than what is expected in a given area

• endemic
• epidemic
• pandemic
• outbre