Introduction To Epidemiology

Question 1

What is epidemiology?

Answer 1

The study of how often diseases occur in different groups people and why.

Question 2

Explain epidemiology according to dictionary of epidemiology

Answer 2

The study if the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified population and the application on this study to the con of health problems

Question 3

Epidemiology activities look at the following factors

Answer 3

Causation of disease
Natural history of disease
Evaluation of health intervention
Health status of population

Question 4

The information is used to improve health by finding and influencing?

Answer 4

Policy decisions
Evidence based medicine
Planning and development of health services

Question 5

It is the fundamental science of?

Answer 5

Public health

Question 6

It’s the science that looks at the health of population rather than of individuals.
True or false

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The practice goals of Epidemiology are to

Answer 7

Understand why is there an increased risk of disease for certain people and certain population

Implement and plan interventions at an individual or public level

Monitoring or surveillance of time trends to show which diseases are increasing or decreasing in incidence and which are changing in their distribution

This information is needed to identify emerging problems and also to assess the effectiveness of measures to control old problems

Question 8

What general things should you know about the disease to describe?

Answer 8

Who
Where
When
Why
What

Question 9

Few main guiding principles about epidemiology

Answer 9

All findings must be relate to a defined population
Oriented to groups rather than individuals
Conclusion are based on comparisons

Question 10

John snow is the father of?

Answer 10

Epidemiology

Question 11

The name of the Baxter that causes a profuse watery diarrhea

Answer 11

Vibrio cholera

Question 12

Discuss what is the population at risk

Answer 12

The term population at risk refers to the group if individuals susceptible to the event of interest at or during the time period I’d interest

The population at risk is the group of people healthy or sick who would be counted as cases if they had the disease being studied

The population at risk is used as the denomination in calculation of measure of disease frequency

Same as study population or study sample