Science Olympiad Disease Detectives Study Terms

Question 1

A mortality rate that is strictly modified to eliminate of different age verities in many areas

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Age - adjusted mortality rate

Question 2

The application or practice of epidemiology to address public health issues.

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Applied Epidemiology

Question 3

is a chart or graph that presents categorical data with rectangular bars.

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Bar chart, Bar graph

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A condition in which the organism that transmits the causative agent of a disease.

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Biologic Transmission

Question 5

Statistical relationship between two or more events, characteristics, or other variables.

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Association

Question 6

usually refers to the biological pathogen that causes a disease. Such as Bacteria.

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Agent

Question 7

A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit.

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Chain of infection

Question 8

refers to effects that a conclusion that may be incorrect.

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Bias

Question 9

Is a mortality rate limited to a particular age group.

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Age - Specific mortality rate

Question 10

Is a standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on the five number summary.

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Box Plot

Question 11

is the amount of deaths within a designated population of cases over the course of the disease.

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Case-fatality rate

Question 12

is an imperative step in quantifying the magnitude of disease in a population.

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Case

Question 13

Test hypothesis and answer why and how

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Analytic Study

Question 14

a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displays no symptoms.

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Carrier

Question 15

A factor that influences the affect of the disease

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Cause of Disease

Question 16

Where scientist look at a patient with a disease and looks at a patient without a disease.

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Case-control study

Question 17

Is the mortality rate from a specified cause for a population.

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Cause- specific mortality rate

Question 18

The same information allows you to calculate the proportion of disease in the exposed group.

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Attributable Proportion

Question 19

in epidemiology, set of data used in making a decision as to whether a patient has a disease.

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Case definition

Question 20

The enumeration of an entire population.

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Census

Question 21

Is concerned with the search for causes and effects, or the why and the how.

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Analytic epidemiology

Question 22

A variant of an incident rate, applied to a narrowly defined population watched in a epidemic.

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Attack Rate

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