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Question 1

What is epidemiology?

Answer 1

population medicine

Question 2

What are epidemiologists concerned with?

Answer 2

course of disease in a population

Question 3

What can data collected by epidemiologists be used for?

Answer 3

to prevent disease outbreaks or determine effectiveness of prevention efforts

Question 4

Morbidity

Answer 4

rate at which illness occurs within a population

Question 5

Mortality

Answer 5

death rate

Question 6

Incidence

Answer 6

number of new health-related events or cases of a disease in a population exposed to that risk during a particular period of time, divided by total # in same population

Question 7

Prevalence

Answer 7

number of new and old cases in a given period of time, divided by total # in that population

Question 8

Acute

Answer 8

3 months or less

Question 9

Chronic

Answer 9

3 months or longer

Question 10

Incidence and Prevalence rates are expressed as….

Answer 10

crude or specific

Question 11

Descritptive Epidemiological Study

Answer 11

respect to person, place and time

Question 12

Analytical Epidemiological Study

Answer 12

aimed at testing hypothesis, relationship between variables

Question 13

Define the Who of Descriptive Studies

Answer 13

case count followed by who is ill (man, woman, child, etc)

Question 14

Define the When of Descriptive Studies

Answer 14

time of onset for each case, epidemic curve created

Question 15

Define the Where of Desciptive Studies

Answer 15

determine residential address and travel history

Question 16

Epidemic Curve

Answer 16

Graphic display of the cases of disease according to the time or date of onset of symptoms

Question 17

What are the levels of prevention

Answer 17

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary

Question 18

Primary Prevention

Answer 18

before onset of illness or injury during pre-pathogenesis period

Question 19

Secondary Prevention

Answer 19

early diagnosis and prompt treatment before disease becomes advanced

Question 20

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 20

at rehab following significant pathogenesis

Retrain, Reeducation, rehabilitate

Question 21

What are the community organizing methods

Answer 21

locality development, social planning and social action

Question 22

What is locality development

Answer 22

based on concept of broad self help participation from comm., process oriented, organizer is an enabler and comm. are drivers of intervention

Question 23

What is social planning

Answer 23

based on staff developed measures, task oriented, organizer has tech role and comm is consumer

Question 24

What is social action

Answer 24

disadvantaged goups voice concern and elicit help of those not affected, task and process oriented, organizer serves as advocate, comm is disadvantaged group

Question 25

What is the primary limitation to the community organizing methods

Answer 25

they are problem based and organization center

Question 26

What steps are required in community organizing

Answer 26

recognizing issue, gaining entry, organizing the people, assessing the community, determining priorites and setting goals, arriving at a solution and selecting intervention strategies, implement plan, evaluating outcomes of plan, maintaining outcomes in comm., looping back

Question 27

What happens during the social assessment part of the precede proceed model

Answer 27

identify needs of community and potential assests that can address them and obtain indicatiors of QOL

Question 28

What happens during Epidemiological Assessment in Precede Proceed

Answer 28

identify specific health goals or problems that may interact with problems ided in social assessment, looks at indicators such as disablilty, morbidity, fertility

Question 29

Educational and Ecological Assessment

Answer 29

Seek to identify potential causal agents of health and social
factors. predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling

Question 30

Administrative and Policy Assessment

Answer 30

Addresses what program components and interventions are
needed to affect the changes specified in previous phases
and ultimately select an intervention