Final Exam - Epidemiology - Surveillance and Investigation

Question 1

Define Epidemiology - Disease Surveillance:

Answer 1

Defined by CDC as the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data…

Question 2

Public Health Approach to disease to disease surveillance:

Answer 2

• Surveillance
• Risk Factor Identification
• Intervention Evaluation
• Implementation

Question 3

Types of Public Health Surveillance, Passive:

Answer 3

– Provider initiated, routine reporting by health care providers based on a known set of rules and regulations

Question 4

Types of Public Health Surveillance, Active:

Answer 4

– Health Department initiated, periodic visits to healthcare providers to obtain required information

Question 5

The main purpose of epidemiologic surveillance is:

Answer 5

A) To determine cause
B) To identify what’s responsible for cause
C) To collect data on how many have disease
D) To recognize when outbreak is occurring

Question 6

Public Health Surveillance steps:

Answer 6

• Systematic data collection
• Data Analysis
• Interpretation of data
• Dissemination of data
• Ongoing

Question 7

VAERS:

Answer 7

Vaccine Adverse Reporting Event; vaccines

Question 8

AERS:

Answer 8

Adverse Event Reporting System; drugs

Question 9

Epidemiological Investigation Objectives:

Answer 9

• Define
• Investigate
• Analyze
• Control
• Report

Question 10

Center for Health Statistics:

Answer 10

Nation’s health statistics agency; done by CDC

Question 11

Vital statistics:

Answer 11

• All births & deaths
• Sent to local health departments and state office of vital statistics
• Then sent to National Center for Health Statistics

Question 12

Uses of Surveillance Data:

Answer 12

• Establish
• Detect
• Identify
• Characterize
• Follow

Question 13

HAN:

Answer 13

Health Alert Network; by CDC

-Emergency Preparedness Response