Chapter 2 Quiz

A  FALSE

B  TRUE

A  Cross-sectional study

B  Case-control study

C  Cohort study

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

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

E  All of these are correct.

A  describing the scope of health problems.

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

C  assessing variations in disease occurrence.

D  the development of hypotheses.

E  determining the risk of disease.

A  John Snow

B  Hippocrates

C  Socrates

D  Sir Percival Pott

E  K. J. Rothman

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

B  was the father of modern biostatistics

C  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

D  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

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

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

B  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

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

D  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

E  was the father of modern biostatistics.

A  (X/Z) × 100,000.

B  (Z/X) × 100,000.

C  (X/Y) × 100,000.

D  (Z/Y) × 100,000.

E  None of these is correct.

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

B  The prevalence for that disease during the past year

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

A  one cause of spurious or chance clustering.

B  None of these is correct.

C  a description of disease according to person variables.

D  a description of disease according to etiologic factors.

E  a new insect pest that is invading the southwest.

A  Concern with populations

B  Methodology for study designs

C  All of these are correct.

D  Use of observational data

E  Descriptive and analytic studies

A  Diagnosis of a disease in a single individual

B  Description of a single individual’s symptoms

C  Treatment of a patient with lung cancer

D  Study of cancer occurrence in populations

E  None of these is correct.