Descriptive epidemiology encompasses which of the following?
A)Making a community diagnosis
B)Reporting sex‐specific trends in causes of death in Alaska
C)Producing a table ranking European countries according to their wine consumption
D)Graphing those consumption rates against heart disease mortality rates
E)All of the above

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Each measure or activity tells us something about the state of health, or
distribution of possible influences on the health of a nation, state or community, and B
specifically includes the descriptive elements of person, time and place.By jointly
graphing country-specific patterns of a possible causal or preventive agent and related
disease as in D, the population-based descriptive data additionally allow hypotheses to
be made about the relation between the two factors.

Descriptive Epidemiology Encompasses Which of the Following