Epi Class Populations

Question 1

What is an outcome? Does it need to be heterogeneous in the population?

Answer 1

Health indicator, state, event, level,

Yes

Question 2

What are the four categories of outcomes

Answer 2

Binary, categorical, ordinal, continuous

Question 3

Define binary outcome

Answer 3

HIV, you have it or you don’t

Question 4

Define ordinal

Answer 4

Pain level, status of health

Question 5

Define continuous

Answer 5

Blood pressure range, IQ

Question 6

Define exposure

Answer 6

A hypothesized cause of the outcome, can be micro or macro

Question 7

What is an innate exposure?

Answer 7

Characteristics you were born with

Question 8

What is a micro exposure

Answer 8

Germs, something on the cellular level

Question 9

What is a macro exposure

Answer 9

Policy

Question 10

What is an acute exposure?

Answer 10

One-time exposure, very high level, poison (a one-dose thing)

Question 11

What is chronic exposure

Answer 11

Smoking

Question 12

What is latent exposure?

Answer 12

Showing consequences after a period of time

Question 13

What is duration? EX

Answer 13

Being exposed to something once or multiple times, lead poisoning

Question 14

What is ICD-10?

Answer 14

Official classification system

Question 15

What is acculturation?

Answer 15

Somebody moves from one country to another and how assimilated they are in their country

Question 16

What is a dynamic exposure

Answer 16

Smoking, can quit smoking and start again, different people might smoke different amounts