Chapter 2 Quiz

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Case-control study

B  Cohort study

C  Case series study

D  Cross-sectional study

A  Disease causality includes three major factors: agent, host, and environment.

B  The host is the person who affords lodgment of an infectious agent.

C  The environment is the domain in which disease-causing agents may exist.

D  All of these are correct.

E  Agent factors can include particles, toxic chemicals, and pesticides.

A  assessing variations in disease occurrence.

B  describing the scope of health problems.

C  the development of hypotheses.

D  assessing variations in disease occurrence, the development of hypotheses, and describing the scope of health problems.

E  determining the risk of disease.

A  John Snow

B  Sir Percival Pott

C  Socrates

D  Hippocrates

E  K. J. Rothman

A  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

B  was a London surgeon who identified an environmental cause of cancer.

C  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

D  was the father of modern biostatistics

E  argued that the environment was associated with diseases such as malaria.

A  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

B  was a London surgeon who identified an environmental cause of cancer.

C  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

D  argued that the environment was associated with diseases such as malaria.

E  was the father of modern biostatistics.

A  (Z/X) × 100,000.

B  (X/Y) × 100,000.

C  (Z/Y) × 100,000.

D  None of these is correct.

E  (X/Z) × 100,000.

A  The incidence rate for that disease in a given period of time

B  The prevalence for that disease during the past year

C  A spot map that records all cases of the disease in the past year

D  The number of deaths due to that disease during a given year

E  The case fatality rate (CFR) from that disease in the 0 to 4 age group

A  a description of disease according to etiologic factors.

B  None of these is correct.

C  a new insect pest that is invading the southwest.

D  a description of disease according to person variables.

E  one cause of spurious or chance clustering.

A  Descriptive and analytic studies

B  Concern with populations

C  All of these are correct.

D  Methodology for study designs

E  Use of observational data

A  None of these is correct.

B  Description of a single individual’s symptoms

C  Treatment of a patient with lung cancer

D  Diagnosis of a disease in a single individual

E  Study of cancer occurrence in populations