Epidemiology

Question 1

This is the study of the behavior of disease on the community rather than in individual patients.

Answer 1

Epidemiology

Question 2

The main goal is to control and prevent the spread of disease.

Answer 2

Epidemiology

Question 3

These are the three (3) components of epidemiology.

Answer 3

Population, Distribution, and Risk Factors

Question 4

These are the uses of epidemiology.

Answer 4

Identify the etiology, determine the prognosis, and identify the risk factor.

Question 5

This is the sudden increase in the incidence of a diseases above the usual expected rate.

Answer 5

Epidemic

Question 6

This is the rate of which a disease proliferates.

Answer 6

Endemic Rate

Question 7

True or False: In an epidemic it is crucial to think WHO is getting the disease, WHERE is the disease, and WHY did the outbreak happen.

Answer 7

False, it’s WHO, WHERE, and WHEN.

Question 8

This community reaction happens in the occurrence of few and unrelated cases.

Answer 8

Sporadic

Question 9

This community reaction happens due to constant occurrence.

Answer 9

Endemic

Question 10

This community reaction happens in the occurrence of several cases of a disease.

Answer 10

Epidemic

Question 11

This community reaction happens when there is an epidemic involving multiple countries.

Answer 11

Pandemic

Question 12

This a disease surveillance category made by the government before many people start dying.

Answer 12

Notifiable Disease

Question 13

This monitor trends in the endemic disease and control objectives and needs timely reporting to allow public health officials to detect epidemics in its early stages.

Answer 13

Notifiable Diseases

Question 14

This person is the father of modern epidemiology for his work in tracing specific outbreak sources in England.

Answer 14

John Snow, 1854

Question 15

This person conducted studies about cholera and creates spot maps.

Answer 15

John Snow, 1854

Question 16

This is the causative agent for cholera.

Answer 16

Vibrio Cholerae

Question 17

This is a fatal intestinal disease that was rampant during the early 1800’s in London and was commonly thought to be caused by bad air from rotting matter.

Answer 17

Cholera

Question 18

These are the two ways on how intervention evaluation can be conducted.

Answer 18

Stop exposure to large scale contaminated water and stop exposure to the entire area specific water supply.

Question 19

This is any element, substance, or force whether living or non-living thing. The presence or absence can initiate or perpetuate a disease process.

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Agent

Question 20

This type of agent is a physical or mechanical in nature that can live in extreme temperatures or light electricity.

Answer 20

Living or Non-living Agents

Question 21

This type of agent can either be endogenous or exogenous.

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Chemical Agents

Question 22

This is described as the time from exposure to the first or earliest symptom.

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Incubation

Question 23

This type of incubation is the time of exposure to a pathogenic organism and the onset of symptoms of a disease.

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Clinical Incubation Period

Question 24

This type of incubation is the time taken by the parasite to complete its development in the definite host.

Answer 24

Biological Incubation Period

Question 25

This subtype of incubation is the time of entry of the infective larvae to the presence of microfilariae.

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Intrinsic Incubation Period

Question 26

These are the three (3) descriptions for Isolation.

Answer 26

1. Sick
2. Last for the Period of Communicability
3. At least 7 Days after symptoms have gone away.

Question 27

These are the three (3) descriptions for Quarantine.

Answer 27

1. Exposed or Close Contact
2. 14 days to see if one gets sick
3. To ensure the person does not infect others

Question 28

This is the time during an infectious agent can be transmitted directly or indirectly to infecting from another host.

Answer 28

Period of Communicability

Question 29

This category of isolation is designed to prevent transmission of highly contagious or virulent infections. May be spread via contact or droplet.

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Strict Isolation

Question 30

This category of isolation is for less highly transmissible infections are primarily spread by close or direct contact.

Answer 30

Contact Isolation

Question 31

This category of isolation is for the preventions of transmission of infectious disease over short distances through air.

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Respiratory Isolation

Question 32

This category of isolation is for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who have a positive sputum or chest x-rays which strongly suggest active tuberculosis.

Answer 32

Tuberculosis Isolation or AFB Isolation

Question 33

This category of quarantine is done through the limitation of movement of those exposed to a communicable disease for a period not longer than the longest usual incubation period of that disease.

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Absolute/Complete Quarantine

Question 34

This category of quarantine is a selective, partial limitation of freedom of movement of contacts. Is done in a short period of time.

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Modified Quarantine

Question 35

This is the phase of pathogenesis where man is yet to be involved.

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Pre-pathogenesis

Question 36

This is the phase of pathogenesis that is through the interaction of an agent, host, and the environment.

Answer 36

Pre-pathogenesis

Question 37

This is the phase of pathogenesis where everyone is in a period of many diseases present in the environment where man lives.

Answer 37

Pre-pathogenesis

Question 38

This is the phase of pathogenesis when an invasion and establishment of an agent in the host is successful.

Answer 38

Pathogenesis

Question 39

This is the phase of pathogenesis where signs and symptoms occur.

Answer 39

Pathogenesis