GLPH 271 Module 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

GLPH 271 Module 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWER The study of distribution and
determinants of health-related states or events and the application to control diseases and
other health problems.



What are some key epidemiological questions? - CORRECT ANSWER Examples
include the impact of the opioid crisis on mortality in Canada and the effectiveness of
interventions to reduce opioid-related deaths.


What does Indigenous data sovereignty require? - CORRECT
ANSWER Decolonization of data and Indigenous data governance.



What are Maggie Walter's 5Ds of colonized Indigenous data? - CORRECT
ANSWER Disparity, deprivation, disadvantage, dysfunction, difference.



What is the definition of incidence in epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWER The risk
of new cases of disease arising in a population over a defined period of time.



How is cumulative incidence calculated? - CORRECT ANSWER Cumulative
incidence = # of new cases of disease over time period / total population at risk.



What is prevalence in epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWER The number of existing
cases in a population.


What is the difference between point prevalence and period prevalence? - CORRECT
ANSWER Point prevalence measures the proportion of the population with a disease at
a specific time, while period prevalence measures it over a defined period.



What is the crude mortality rate? - CORRECT ANSWER # deaths over a time period *
100,000 / population at midpoint of time period.