Chapter 2

Question 1

P.E.R.I.E Approach

Answer 1

Problem - what is the problem?
Etiology - what is/are the contributory causes?
Recommendations - what works to reduce the health impact?
Implementation - how can we get the job done?
Evaluation - how well did our interventions work?

Question 2

Burden of disease

Answer 2

The occurrence of disability (morbidity) and death (mortality) due to a disease

Question 3

Course of disease

Answer 3

How often does the disease occur, how likely is it to be present and what happens once it occurs?

Question 4

Distribution of disease

Answer 4

Who? When? Where?

Question 5

Group Association

Answer 5

a hypothesis about the cause of a disease without having info on specific individuals within the group

Question 6

Confounding variables

Answer 6

a factor that could possibly contribute to a group association

Question 7

Three basic reasons changes are artifactual rather than real:

Answer 7

Differences or changes in the interest in identifying the disease
Differences or changes in the ability to identify the disease
Differences or changes in the definition of the disease