Part 2

Question 1

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ tries to describe situations associated with a disease.  When does this disease occur?  In what parts of the country is it most common?  What's the death rate like for this disease and for the organism causing the disease?  How do factors like age, race, gender, economic status play in disease occurrence?
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 1

B.) Descriptive epidemiology

Question 2

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ tracks epidemic cases.
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 2

A.) Surveillance epidemiology

Question 3

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ seeks to eliminate disease.  Once transmission has been documented, scientists and health care professionals can enter that region and offer medical support, especially vaccines.
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 3

A.) Surveillance epidemiology

key word = vaccines

Question 4

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ investigates disease outbreaks.  Number of cases is usually smaller than in surveillance epidemiology.  Examine an increase in disease in a small subset of the population.
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 4

D.) Field epidemiology

Question 5

A large number of people became sick at a music festival in Los Angeles.  They discovered that the cause of the incident was due to E. coli being found in the lettuce supply at the snack bar.  Which field of immunology would investigate this incident?
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 5

D.) Field epidemiology

Question 6

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ investigate the source of nosocomial infections.  
A.) Surveillance epidemiology
B.) Descriptive epidemiology
C.) Hospital epidemiology
D.) Field epidemiology

Answer 6

C.) Hospital epidemiology

Question 7

Invasive medical procedures-

Instruments are introduced into the gastrointestinal tract.
A.) Bronchoscopy
B.) Laparoscopy
C.) Encoscopy

Answer 7

C.) Encoscopy

Question 8

Invasive medical procedures-

Instruments are introduced into the respiratory tract.
A.) Bronchoscopy
B.) Laparoscopy
C.) Encoscopy

Answer 8

A.) Bronchoscopy

Question 9

Invasive medical procedures-

Instruments are introduced into the abdominal cavity.
A.) Bronchoscopy
B.) Laparoscopy
C.) Encoscopy

Answer 9

B.) Laparoscopy

Question 10

The process of preventing an infected person from having contact with the general population.
A.) Quarantine
B.) Isolation

Answer 10

B.) Isolation

Question 11

Involves separating individuals who appear healthy from the general public because they have been exposed to a communicable disease or pathogenic agent.
A.) Quarantine
B.) Isolation

Answer 11

A.) Quarantine

(usually last as long as it takes for the patient to show signs and symptoms)
(reserved for severely infectious diseases or deadly pathogens)