EPI 4-6

For both males and females, what type of cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality?

In epidemiology, place variables include:

A sufficient cause is sufficient by itself to produce the effect.

The process of passing from observations and axioms to generalizations is known as:

One-to-one causation is unusual because many diseases have more than one causal factor.

A cross-sectional study is a type of prevalence study.

Case reports are accounts of a single occurrence of a noteworthy health-related incident.

One objective of descriptive epidemiology is to evaluate trends in health and disease in order to monitor known diseases

For which of the following criteria do epidemiologists need to observe the cause before the effect?

By law, physicians and other healthcare providers must report cases of certain diseases, to health authorities

What factors may be considered when measuring socioeconomic status?

Urban diseases and causes of mortality are more likely to be those associated with:

All except which of the following are considered vital events? 

Variations in infectious and chronic diseases from one country to another may be attributed to:

A range of values that with a certain degree of probability contain the population parameter is known as a: 

Which of the following sources could be used for determining life expectancy? 

Monitoring cancer trends in the U.S. population over time is a major application of: 

Death certificate data in the United States include which of the following?

Gradual changes in the frequency of diseases over long periods are known as:

Representativeness refers to the generalizability of the findings to the population from which the data have been taken.

Descriptive epidemiology characterizes health according to person, place, and time.

A necessary cause is sufficient by itself to produce the effect.

Differences in the occurrence of diseases and adverse health conditions in the population are known as

Birth statistics include statistics on both live births and fetal deaths.

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): 

In epidemiology, person variables include: 

Examples of information collected by fetal death certificates include:

The systematic and continuous gathering of information about the occurrence of diseases and other health phenomena is:

Descriptive epidemiology provides information for: 

Some examples of surveillance systems include those for:

The overriding question epidemiologists ask is whether a particular exposure is causally associated with a given outcome

Cross-sectional studies measure relationships between diseases and other variables at a particular time.

Those who occupy the lowest socioeconomic positions have excesses of morbidity and mortality from various causes.

The causes of morbidity and mortality differ according to the stage of life.

The web of causation model specifies a type of causal relationship that is: