Introduction to Epidemiology

What type of disease pattern spreads rapidly over countries and continents?

• Outbreak

• Pandemic

• Epidemic

• Endemic

Any virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasite that can cause a disease in a living thing is called a

• cancer.

• pathogen.

• gene.

• toxin.

Health care experts who study trends in health issues in populations and deploy public announcements, education initiatives, and protocols to protect the health of the nation.

• epidemiologists

• dermatologists

• medical examiners

• immunologist

A disease that is found in small amounts, consistently within a population

• pandemic

• endemic

• epidemic

• outbreak

An organism that holds or carries a pathogen but does not show any symptoms

• Contagion
• Vector
• Carrier
• Host cell

A sudden increase of a specific disease

• Epidemic
• Pandemic
• Outbreak
• Contagion

What is the first step to reporting notifiable disease to the CDC?

• State health departments send that data via integrated surveillance information systems such as the NEDDS Base System (NBS) to the CDC

• The CDC then compiles weekly summary reports

• The local health departments then send that data to their state health department.

• Physicians, clinics, and hospitals report notifiable diseases to their local health department.

What questions are descriptive studies designed to answer?

• Descriptive studies seek to describe the extent of disease in regard to person, time, and place.

• They do not answer the questions who, when, and where.

• They seek to determine where an illness may have originated by acquiring the residential address and travel history of the cases (restaurants, schools, shopping, vacations, etc.).

Which of the following is NOT an example of a communicable disease

• cold

• flu

• small pox

• asthma

Which are three types of DIRECT transmission (of diseases)?

• Body fluid exchange

• Skin contact

• Sneezing/ coughing

• Fomite transfer

• Airborne pathogens