Module 3, Module 4 Lesson Quiz -
CHLH 274 Practice Questions and All
Correct Answers.
the medical examiner or coroner completes and signs the death certificate if the cause of death
was an accident, suicide, or homicide, or if the attending physician is unavailable - Answer
true
health insurance statistics provide a generally representative picture of the health status of the
US population - Answer false
studies of the effects of exposure to teratogens have used data from - Answer birth
certificates
cautious use of information from death certificates is warranted because - Answer cause of
death information may not be correct
the purpose of state cancer registries is - Answer surveillance, to help set priorities, to
advance research
the US Bureau of the Census provides information that is useful for defining the denominator in
rates - Answer true
three factors that affect the quality of epidemiologic data are availability, completeness, and the
nature of the data - Answer true
in the US, mortality data have a high degree of completeness - Answer true
examples of information collected by fetal death certificates include - Answer name,
disposition, congenital anomalies
asthma is an example of a nationally notifiable disease - Answer false
introduction - Answer •Unequal distributions of health and disease in populations
•To determine why health conditions vary throughout populations, one must answer the
following questions:
∙ Who was affected?
∙ Where did the (health) event occur?
, ∙ When did the (health) event occur?
descriptive epidemiology - Answer classifies the occurrence of disease according to the
following variables:
•Person (who is affected)
•Place (where the condition occurs)
•Time (when and over what time period the condition has occurred)
descriptive epidemiology study - Answer concerned with characterizing the amount and
distribution of health and disease within a population
use of descriptive epidemiologic studies - Answer •Permit evaluation of trends in health and
disease
•Provide a basis for planning, provision, and evaluation of health services
•Identify problems to be studied by analytic methods, and suggest areas that may be fruitful for
investigation
descriptive epidemiology pt.2 - Answer • Provides valuable information for the following
activities:
∙ Prevention of disease
∙ Design of interventions
∙ Conduct of additional research
• Ex:
∙ Of US infants born in 2012 who were exclusively breastfed:
→ About 43% of infants were breastfed during first 3 months of life
→ About 22% were breastfed through the age of 6 months
→ From descriptive information, hypotheses for interventions to increase breastfeeding can be
derived
case reports - Answer •Accounts of a single occurrence of a noteworthy health-related
incident or of a small collection of such events
•Example: adverse reactions due to cosmetic surgery in the United States
case series - Answer •In comparison with a case report, a case series is a larger collection of
cases of disease, often grouped consecutively and listing common features, e.g., characteristics
of affected patients
•Example: reported cases of primary meningoencephalitis (121 cases reported between 1937
and 2007)
CHLH 274 Practice Questions and All
Correct Answers.
the medical examiner or coroner completes and signs the death certificate if the cause of death
was an accident, suicide, or homicide, or if the attending physician is unavailable - Answer
true
health insurance statistics provide a generally representative picture of the health status of the
US population - Answer false
studies of the effects of exposure to teratogens have used data from - Answer birth
certificates
cautious use of information from death certificates is warranted because - Answer cause of
death information may not be correct
the purpose of state cancer registries is - Answer surveillance, to help set priorities, to
advance research
the US Bureau of the Census provides information that is useful for defining the denominator in
rates - Answer true
three factors that affect the quality of epidemiologic data are availability, completeness, and the
nature of the data - Answer true
in the US, mortality data have a high degree of completeness - Answer true
examples of information collected by fetal death certificates include - Answer name,
disposition, congenital anomalies
asthma is an example of a nationally notifiable disease - Answer false
introduction - Answer •Unequal distributions of health and disease in populations
•To determine why health conditions vary throughout populations, one must answer the
following questions:
∙ Who was affected?
∙ Where did the (health) event occur?
, ∙ When did the (health) event occur?
descriptive epidemiology - Answer classifies the occurrence of disease according to the
following variables:
•Person (who is affected)
•Place (where the condition occurs)
•Time (when and over what time period the condition has occurred)
descriptive epidemiology study - Answer concerned with characterizing the amount and
distribution of health and disease within a population
use of descriptive epidemiologic studies - Answer •Permit evaluation of trends in health and
disease
•Provide a basis for planning, provision, and evaluation of health services
•Identify problems to be studied by analytic methods, and suggest areas that may be fruitful for
investigation
descriptive epidemiology pt.2 - Answer • Provides valuable information for the following
activities:
∙ Prevention of disease
∙ Design of interventions
∙ Conduct of additional research
• Ex:
∙ Of US infants born in 2012 who were exclusively breastfed:
→ About 43% of infants were breastfed during first 3 months of life
→ About 22% were breastfed through the age of 6 months
→ From descriptive information, hypotheses for interventions to increase breastfeeding can be
derived
case reports - Answer •Accounts of a single occurrence of a noteworthy health-related
incident or of a small collection of such events
•Example: adverse reactions due to cosmetic surgery in the United States
case series - Answer •In comparison with a case report, a case series is a larger collection of
cases of disease, often grouped consecutively and listing common features, e.g., characteristics
of affected patients
•Example: reported cases of primary meningoencephalitis (121 cases reported between 1937
and 2007)
