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

C  All of these are correct.

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

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

A  the development of hypotheses.

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

C  determining the risk of disease.

D  describing the scope of health problems.

E  assessing variations in disease occurrence.

A  Hippocrates

B  John Snow

C  Socrates

D  K. J. Rothman

E  Sir Percival Pott

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

B  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

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  was the father of modern biostatistics.

B  established postulates for transmission of infectious disease.

C  was an English anesthesiologist who used natural experiments.

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

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

A  (X/Z) × 100,000.

B  (Z/Y) × 100,000.

C  (Z/X) × 100,000.

D  (X/Y) × 100,000.

E  None of these is correct.

A  The prevalence for that disease during the past year

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

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

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

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

A  a description of disease according to etiologic factors.

B  one cause of spurious or chance clustering.

C  a description of disease according to person variables.

D  a new insect pest that is invading the southwest.

E  None of these is correct.

A  Methodology for study designs

B  Descriptive and analytic studies

C  Use of observational data

D  All of these are correct.

E  Concern with populations

A  None of these is correct.

B  Treatment of a patient with lung cancer

C  Study of cancer occurrence in populations

D  Description of a single individual’s symptoms

E  Diagnosis of a disease in a single individual