PUBH 302 EXAM 2 INFO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026
1. is the study of the distribution & determinants of health-related states
or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control health
problems: Epidemiology
2. Epidemiology has been called medicine: population
3. What did the Framingham Heart study lead to?: Led to the identification of the major CVD
risk factors - high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, and physical inactivity
4. What study led to the identification of the major CVD risk factors?: Framingham Heart
Study
5. What are the 4 ways we measure health (negatively)?: death (mortality)
illness (morbidity)
Injury/disability
disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
6. What are the 3 positive measurements of health?: quality of life
healthy days of life
psycho-social measures
7. Epidemiologists study outbreaks of disease, injury, & death in the human
population by asking what 6 questions?: What?
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1. is the study of the distribution & determinants of health-related states
or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control health
problems: Epidemiology
2. Epidemiology has been called medicine: population
3. What did the Framingham Heart study lead to?: Led to the identification of the major CVD
risk factors - high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, and physical inactivity
4. What study led to the identification of the major CVD risk factors?: Framingham Heart
Study
5. What are the 4 ways we measure health (negatively)?: death (mortality)
illness (morbidity)
Injury/disability
disability adjusted life years (DALYs)
6. What are the 3 positive measurements of health?: quality of life
healthy days of life
psycho-social measures
7. Epidemiologists study outbreaks of disease, injury, & death in the human
population by asking what 6 questions?: What?
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