Epidemiology

What is the definition of Epidemiology ?

• Science of looking at health of individuals

• Study of distribution and determinants of health-related states among specified individuals

• Study of occurence, distribution and determinants of health and disease among specified populations

• Study of distribution and determinants of health-related states in order to form treatment options for populations

What do you call something that is likely to be transmitted to people through the environment?

• carcinogen

• infectious

• hazardous

• congenital

A reservoir of an infectious agent can be

• bugs

•     An animal

• The environment

• All of the above

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The ______of a particular disease is the number of new cases in a population in a given time period

• prevelance

• incidence

• morbidity

• mortality

Which of the following could be used to prevent food-borne illness? Choose all that apply

• Wash hands

• Cook food thoroughly

• Use the same cutting board for uncooked meat and produce

• Refrigerate perishable food in two hours

The _____of a given disease is the total number of new and existing disease cases in a population in a given time period

• prevalence

• incidence

• morbidity

• mortality

Which among the following is not example of morbidity

• Number of people who have cancer

• Number of people who have hypertension

• Number of patients suffered with Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection

• Number of people who died from cancer

Noncommunicable diseases are...

• Passed from person to person
• Not passed from person to person

What does mortality mean?

• Death
• Health
• Illness
• Physically able

Which type of disease exists permanently in a geographical area or population group. Examples include sleeping sickness, confined to rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Pandemic
• Epidemic
• Endemic
• Contagious