Behavioural Sciences

Question 1

What is an endemic?

Answer 1

Usual, expected rate of disease over time; disease is maintained without much variation within a region

Question 2

What is an epidemic?

Answer 2

Occurrence of disease in excess of the expected rate; usually presents in a larger geographic span than endemics

Question 3

What is a pandemic?

Answer 3

Worldwide epidemic

Question 4

Epidemic curve?

Answer 4

Visual description (commonly histogram) of an epidemic curve is disease cases plotted against time; classic signature of an epidemic is a “spike” in time

Question 5

What is the disease rate?

Answer 5

Actual cases/potential cases

Question 6

Rates are generally by how many people?

Answer 6

100,000

Question 7

Incidence rate is the rate at which

Answer 7

New events occur in a population

New/at risk

Question 8

Attack rate is the

Answer 8

Cummulative incidence of infection in a group of people observed over a period of time during an epidemic, usually in relation to food-borne illness
Beginning of outbreak to end