Chapter 2 Quiz

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Cohort study

B  Case series study

C  Case-control study

D  Cross-sectional study

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

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

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

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

E  All of these are correct.

A  assessing variations in disease occurrence.

B  determining the risk of disease.

C  describing the scope of health problems.

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

E  the development of hypotheses.

A  Sir Percival Pott

B  John Snow

C  K. J. Rothman

D  Socrates

E  Hippocrates

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

B  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

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

D  was the father of modern biostatistics

E  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

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

B  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

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

D  was the father of modern biostatistics.

E  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

A  (Z/Y) × 100,000.

B  (X/Y) × 100,000.

C  (X/Z) × 100,000.

D  None of these is correct.

E  (Z/X) × 100,000.

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

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

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

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

E  The prevalence for that disease during the past year

A  a description of disease according to etiologic factors.

B  a new insect pest that is invading the southwest.

C  a description of disease according to person variables.

D  one cause of spurious or chance clustering.

E  None of these is correct.

A  Methodology for study designs

B  Use of observational data

C  Descriptive and analytic studies

D  All of these are correct.

E  Concern with populations

A  Study of cancer occurrence in populations

B  Diagnosis of a disease in a single individual

C  None of these is correct.

D  Description of a single individual’s symptoms

E  Treatment of a patient with lung cancer