Epi Test and Quiz Questions with
100% correct answers
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease, risk factors and disease-related
exposures and health status in populations, as well as the study of _______ of those
distributions - ANS ✔✔determinants
T or F: An epidemic occurs when there are significantly more cases of the same disease than
past experience would have predicted. - ANS ✔✔True
What are the Belmont Principles? - ANS ✔✔Respect for Persons, Justice, and Beneficence
What is not included in the Ethics Guide for Public health? - ANS ✔✔Disseminate results of
public health actions
T or F: Koch's postulates were developed to answer the question of whether cigarettes cause
disease, especially lung cancer. - ANS ✔✔False
Who is the father of modern vital statistics? - ANS ✔✔William Farr
T or F: Hill's causal criteria are one of several methods for assessing causality. - ANS ✔✔True
Which one of Hill's causal criteria is supported by this statement, "This finding is in keeping with
results reported from similar studies by Smith et al. in 2000 and Jones et al. in 2005."? - ANS
✔✔Consistency
, T or F: Failure of Hill's causal criterion for temporality disproves a causal relationship - ANS
✔✔True
Which one of Hill's causal criteria is supported by this statement, "This study was able to
establish that students ate at the Blue Grass Festival prior to getting E. Coli."? - ANS
✔✔Temporality
T or F: Clinical Ethics and Public health ethics both focus on population, institutions and
communities - ANS ✔✔False
T or F: Analytic epidemiology is used to measure the distribution or patterns of disease in the
population by person, place, and time - ANS ✔✔False
T or F: Descriptive epidemiology data may be used to help researchers form hypotheses that
can be tested using analytic epidemiology - ANS ✔✔True
T or F: The following statement is an example of incident cases of disease. "206, 640 men in the
United States were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009." - ANS ✔✔True
T or F: The following statement is an example of incident cases of disease. "2,500 patients were
asked to complete a health questionnaire during their annual physical. 198 patients reported
having asthma." - ANS ✔✔False
A treatment is developed that prolongs the life of those suffering from the disease has what
effect on prevalence - ANS ✔✔increases prevalence
A new measure is developed that prevents new cases of disease from occurring has what effect
on prevalence? - ANS ✔✔No effect on prevalence
100% correct answers
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of disease, risk factors and disease-related
exposures and health status in populations, as well as the study of _______ of those
distributions - ANS ✔✔determinants
T or F: An epidemic occurs when there are significantly more cases of the same disease than
past experience would have predicted. - ANS ✔✔True
What are the Belmont Principles? - ANS ✔✔Respect for Persons, Justice, and Beneficence
What is not included in the Ethics Guide for Public health? - ANS ✔✔Disseminate results of
public health actions
T or F: Koch's postulates were developed to answer the question of whether cigarettes cause
disease, especially lung cancer. - ANS ✔✔False
Who is the father of modern vital statistics? - ANS ✔✔William Farr
T or F: Hill's causal criteria are one of several methods for assessing causality. - ANS ✔✔True
Which one of Hill's causal criteria is supported by this statement, "This finding is in keeping with
results reported from similar studies by Smith et al. in 2000 and Jones et al. in 2005."? - ANS
✔✔Consistency
, T or F: Failure of Hill's causal criterion for temporality disproves a causal relationship - ANS
✔✔True
Which one of Hill's causal criteria is supported by this statement, "This study was able to
establish that students ate at the Blue Grass Festival prior to getting E. Coli."? - ANS
✔✔Temporality
T or F: Clinical Ethics and Public health ethics both focus on population, institutions and
communities - ANS ✔✔False
T or F: Analytic epidemiology is used to measure the distribution or patterns of disease in the
population by person, place, and time - ANS ✔✔False
T or F: Descriptive epidemiology data may be used to help researchers form hypotheses that
can be tested using analytic epidemiology - ANS ✔✔True
T or F: The following statement is an example of incident cases of disease. "206, 640 men in the
United States were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009." - ANS ✔✔True
T or F: The following statement is an example of incident cases of disease. "2,500 patients were
asked to complete a health questionnaire during their annual physical. 198 patients reported
having asthma." - ANS ✔✔False
A treatment is developed that prolongs the life of those suffering from the disease has what
effect on prevalence - ANS ✔✔increases prevalence
A new measure is developed that prevents new cases of disease from occurring has what effect
on prevalence? - ANS ✔✔No effect on prevalence
