Chapter 8 Gathering Evidence for Public Health Practice

Question 1

purposes of epidemiology research

Answer 1

identify community public health problems
describe natural history and etiology of diseases

Question 2

what types of research are epidemiologic

Answer 2

either descriptive or analytic

Question 3

weakest design

Answer 3

retrospective

Question 4

strongest design

Answer 4

expiermental
* randomized control trial

Question 5

two major types of studies

Answer 5

descriptive and analytic

Question 6

descriptive study

Answer 6

who what where when
hypothesis generating
characterize and summarize

Question 7

analytic

Answer 7

hypothesis testing
cause
how and why
risk factors
what’s causing the problem

Question 8

three types of descriptive studies

Answer 8

case
survey
cross sectional

Question 9

case study

Answer 9

analysis of individual, group, social institution

Question 10

survey research

Answer 10

sample respondents represent population

Question 11

cross sectional studies

Answer 11

relationship

Question 12

how are descriptive studies completed

Answer 12

observational
no intervention

Question 13

2 types of analytic studies

Answer 13

non experimental and experimental

Question 14

2 types of non experimental

Answer 14

cohort/longitutinal/prospective
case control/retrospective

Question 15

2 types of experimental

Answer 15

preventative and therapeutic trials

Question 16

how do case control studies work

Answer 16

work backwards from the effect to the suspected cause

compare subjects with a disease and matched subjects without the disease

Question 17

advantage of cohort studies

Answer 17

minimize selection bias

Question 18

cohort studies how do they work

Answer 18

monitor subjects over time to find associations between risk factors and health outcomes

Question 19

gold standard for research is

Answer 19

randomized control

Question 20

what is quasi experimental

Answer 20

it is analytic experimental

Question 21

what can quasi experimental be used to find

Answer 21

causality

Question 22

what is systematic reviews

Answer 22

collection of studies