Epi quiz 1

Question 1

socrates popularized the notion that the environment is associated with human health.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

epidemiologist that created with one the first natural experiments that uncovered a disease outbreak in London

Answer 2

john snow

Question 3

Harvard professor who identified occupational toxicity (phossy jaw) among matchstick women

Answer 3

Alice Hamilton

Question 4

John snow is credited for making the smallpox vaccination

Answer 4

False

Question 5

William Farr’s contribution to PH and epidemiology included the development of a more sophisticated system for codifying.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Who is credited for the dose response curve

Answer 6

Paraclesus

Question 7

What physician is credited with handwashing method

Answer 7

Ignaz Sammelweis

Question 8

Diseases that have only human reservoirs and are transmitted from person to person are zoonoses

Answer 8

False.

Question 9

schistosomiasis is an example of

Answer 9

biological agents-helminth

Question 10

Herd immunity must be 100% to confer protection of a group

Answer 10

false

Question 11

Incubation period refers to time between exposure to infection agent and the first sign and symptoms of a disease

Answer 11

false

Question 12

A person with an inaparrent infection can

Answer 12

can transmitt the infection to others

Question 13

high rates of foot fungal disease in new Orleans for decades is considered

Answer 13

a endemic

Question 14

what part of the disease cycle does vaciines try to attack?i

Answer 14

Vectors

Question 15

People with xpox fall dead and there are zero survivors indicates

Answer 15

The case fatality for xpox is high

Question 16

Rabies infections were almost always fatal, this refers to

Answer 16

virulence

Question 17

case fertility rate is the number of deaths divided by the number of cases multiplied by 100?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

R0

Answer 18

reproductive rate of infenction for Herd immunity

Question 19

Herd immunity

Answer 19

Majority of population develop an immunity to an infectious disease through vaccination or previous infection

Question 20

Population shift

Answer 20

epidemiologist shift from looking at infectious disease to chronic disease.

Question 21

3 criteria for causality

Answer 21

1. Temp orality
   2.) specificity and significance
   3.)confounders

Question 22

zoonotic disease

Answer 22

infectious diseases in animals that transmit to humans from animals
3 out of 4 are related to zoonotic

Question 23

zoonosis

Answer 23

an infection disease transmittable under natural conditions

Question 24

what is paraclesus known for

Answer 24

refers to the tendency of a chemical to primarily affect a specific organ in the body.

Question 25

disease containment

Answer 25

1.) identifying the incidence/prevalence of disease
2.)is the disease at endemic, epidemic, or pandemic levels
3.)etiology of disease

Question 26

fatality vs mortality

Answer 26

fatility: percentage of those who die from a disease
mortility: the rate of disease spread in a population!