Overview Of Epidemiology Flashcards
What is descriptive Epidemiology?
Person Place Time (Who Where When)
What are the determinants of disease?
Factors of susceptibility Causes of disease Transmission Social/environmental/genetics
What is Analytic Epidemiology?
Why and How
What are the six objectives of an epidemiologist?
- ID patterns and trends in health events 2.Determine extent of health related event 3.Study natural course 4.ID causes and risks 5.Evaluate effectiveness of treatment and prevention 6. Dev. public health policy
6 Core functions of Epi?
Public health surveillance Field investigation Analytical studies Evaluation Linkages Policy dev
An epidemiologist receives data from a local hospital about an outbreak of cholera and analyzes the data to determine what if anything should be done, what “function” of epidemiology does this fall under?
Passive public health surveillance
An epidemiologist goes to an area that has an outbreak of an in known disease. The epidemiologist goes from infected person to infected person to find out where they went ate who they saw…etc. What function of epidemiology is this?
Field investigation
An epidemiologist takes their hypothesis to design perform communicate and interpret an experiment using a comparison group, what is this?
Analytic study
What is an epidemic curve?
Graph that shows details of an outbreak by number of cases and time period
What is a common point source outbreak?
The outbreak is continuous and not repeated.
What is infectivity?
Ability to invade the host
What is pathogenicity?
Ability to cause clinical disease
What is virulence?
Ability to cause death (aka case fatality)
What kind of outbreak is this?
Common point source
What outbreak is this?
Not sure
