HSA/535 HSA535 HSA 535 WEEK 5 MIDTERM EXAM 1

One of the important concepts from the Nuremberg Code is that of ____, which means that the subject understands the scope of the study and can make an informed decision to participate.

Physical, biological, social, cultural, and behaviors that influence health are known as ____.

Social epidemiology studies ____.

The first step in any epidemiological investigation is to ____.

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is currently a ____.

The biological cause of a problem or disease is known as ____.

Reproductive health studies ____.

Risk factors or exposures that we think might affect the outcome are known as ____.

The time between infection and clinical disease is referred to as a(n) ____.

A test given to people who have no symptoms to check for the presence of a particular disease is known as a ____.

Determining the cause of a disease is referred to as ____.

The modern epidemiologic triangle includes groups of populations, causative factors, and ____.

James Lind (1716-1794) observed the effect of time, place, weather, and diet on the spread of disease by ____.

While Austin Bradford Hill is well-known for his work in developing guidelines for establishing causality for studies of non-infectious diseases, his other contributions to the field of epidemiology and ____ are remarkable.

The representation of a numerator as a fraction of a denominator is known as a(n) ____.

While many people are used to hearing proportions represented as a percentage, many population samples in epidemiology are often presented per ____.

By definition, the disease or condition used to identify a case is determined by the ____.

A person in the population or study group identified as having the particular disease, health disorder, or condition under investigation is known as a ____.

Prevalence equals ____.

The number of new cases of disease in a specified time (usually one year) divided by the population “at-risk” to develop the disease is known as ____.

A table in epidemiology that arranges numbers to allow the comparison of exposure and outcome is called a ____ table.

A proportion measured over a period of time is known as a ____.

____ is the transmission of a disease from mother to child during pregnancy or delivery.

The disease carrier of most concern is known as a(n) ____, which is an infected person who never gets clinically ill, but can transmit the etiologic agent to others.

____ is the transmission of a disease from person to person, and may be directly from one person to another, or indirectly from one person through an intermediate item to another person.

One of the most important emerging problems with the control of infectious diseases has to do with ____.

Infectious diseases are responsible for ____% of worldwide deaths in children under 15 years old and ____% of deaths in people aged 15-59 years old.

How many new cases of HIV infection were reported in the United States for the year 2009?

If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called a ____.

There is ____ in the overall crude death rate in the United States from the year 1900 until 1996.