Deck 5: Descriptive Epidemiology According to Person, Place, and Time

Question 1

Describing health-related states or events by person, place, and time allows us to do all of the following, EXCEPT:

A) identify the extent of the public health problem.
B) describe the public health problem in a way that can be communicated easily.
C) identify who is at greatest risk.
D) provide clues as to the causes of disease.
E) All of these are can be done when describing health-related states or events by person, place, and time.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

A beehive-shaped pyramid indicates that the population is having low birth rates as well as low death rates.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Suppose that, in a given region, 20% of its population is younger than 15 and 10% is older than 65 years of age. What would the dependency ratio be?

A) 43
B) 50
C) 46
D) None of these is correct.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In the United States, for which of the following is the age-adjusted cause-specific death rate for males least-similar to females?

A) Occupational injury
B) Firearm-related injuries
C) Suicide
D) Homicide
E) Cerebrovascular diseases

Question 5

In the United States, for which disease is the age-adjusted death rate higher among Hispanics than Whites?

A) Diseases of the heart
B) Malignant neoplasms
C) Chronic lower respiratory diseases
D) Homicide
E) Suicide

Question 6

Married individuals have been shown to experience lower mortality than nonmarried individuals, regardless of the whether the nonmarried persons were never married, divorced, separated, or widowed.

Question 7

Classifications of occupation include all of the following, EXCEPT:

A) professional.
B) intermediate.
C) skilled.
D) unskilled.
E) All of these are classifications of occupation.

Question 8

In the United States, education has the largest impact on which of the following?

A) Chronic and noncommunicable diseases
B) Injuries
C) Communicable diseases

Question 9

Secular trends represent periodic increases and decreases in the occurrence of health-related states or events.

Question 10

Evaluation cannot be effectively performed in descriptive studies because of confounding.