Chapter 2 Quiz

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Cross-sectional study

B  Case series study

C  Case-control study

D  Cohort study

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

B  All of these are correct.

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

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

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

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

B  assessing variations in disease occurrence.

C  the development of hypotheses.

D  determining the risk of disease.

E  describing the scope of health problems.

A  K. J. Rothman

B  Hippocrates

C  Sir Percival Pott

D  John Snow

E  Socrates

A  was the father of modern biostatistics

B  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

C  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

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

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

A  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

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

C  was the father of modern biostatistics.

D  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

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

A  None of these is correct.

B  (Z/X) × 100,000.

C  (X/Z) × 100,000.

D  (X/Y) × 100,000.

E  (Z/Y) × 100,000.

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

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

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

D  The prevalence for that disease during the past year

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

A  a new insect pest that is invading the southwest.

B  None of these is correct.

C  one cause of spurious or chance clustering.

D  a description of disease according to person variables.

E  a description of disease according to etiologic factors.

A  Methodology for study designs

B  All of these are correct.

C  Use of observational data

D  Concern with populations

E  Descriptive and analytic studies

A  Description of a single individual’s symptoms

B  Treatment of a patient with lung cancer

C  Diagnosis of a disease in a single individual

D  Study of cancer occurrence in populations

E  None of these is correct.