Deck 5: Descriptive Epidemiology

Question 1

_________________ allows us to understand the distribution of disease in one or more populations or localities.

A) Geographic epidemiology
B) Magnitude epidemiology
C) Distribution epidemiology
D) Descriptive epidemiology

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The _____________ lists more than 100 disorders or groups of disorders related to occupational environments.

A) National Labor Committee
B) International Occupational Organization
C) International Labor Organization
D) Occupational Labor Organization

Answer 2

C

Question 3

__________________ are descriptive accounts of clinical presentation and demographic characteristics of individual patients of a previously unknown disease or an unusual presentation of a known disease.

A) Descriptive reports
B) Disease reports
C) Disease presentations
D) Case reports

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Cross-sectional studies are usually conducted in the form of _______________.

A) Surveys
B) Internet research
C) Focus groups
D) Observation

Question 5

Studies that are done to describe the distribution of a disease or health problem are known as _______________.

A) Distribution studies
B) Health distribution studies
C) Descriptive studies
D) Health occurrence studies

Question 6

In a 2014 report by the ILO, 15% of workplace deaths resulted directly from:

A) Development of cancer
B) Stress
C) Exposure to toxins
D) Work-related injuries

Question 7

The association of geographic areas with different diseases, such as Lyme disease, is known as:

A) Geoclimatic distribution
B) Medical geography
C) Disease distribution
D) Geographical disease distribution

Question 8

Which of the following allows users to build state- or county-level maps for fatal injury rates stratified by race, sex, and age categories?

A) CDC's Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
B) National Cancer Institute's website
C) WHO's Online Fatal Injury Database
D) Geographic Fatal Injury Reporting System

Question 9

A(n) _______________ is a visual expression of the distribution of the number of cases of a disease over time.

A) Disease plot
B) Epidemic curve
C) Disease progression curve
D) Disease distribution chart

Question 10

Sex is a strong determinant of the kind of sociopsychological stresses men and women differentially face in life.

Question 11

There is a strong positive relationship between higher income and longer life.

Question 12

Cross-sectional studies are the most common epidemiologic investigations in medicine and clinical research.

Question 13

Diseases tend to be randomly distributed.

Question 14

Publications based on the ___________________ have shown that married people are at a lower risk of mortality, lower risk of suicide, and lower risk of homicide.

Question 15

___________________ examines the spatial distribution of diseases.

Question 16

_________________ are computer systems designed to integrate and analyze spatially or geographically referenced data.

Question 17

Which of the following are limitations of cross-sectional surveys?

A) Self-selection of participants
B) Length of time required to complete
C) Poor recall
D) Difficult to analyze

Question 18

People at the two ends of life-the very young and the very old-are at risk of higher frequency and greater severity of some diseases due to:

A) Lower immunity
B) Less support
C) Lower muscle mass
D) Lower physiologic reserve

Question 19

Ashkenazi Jewish women are at higher risk of developing which of the following diseases?

A) Diabetes
B) Sickle cell anemia
C) Breast cancer
D) Tay-Sachs disease