Phc6001: Exam 1 Latest Questions
and All Correct Answers 2025/2026
Updated.
One of the 10 great achievements of public health in the 20th century was:
a. Inclusion of seat belts in all cars
b. New electronic cigarettes
c. Challenges to the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine
d. Emerging infectious diseases - Answer a. Inclusion of seat belts in all cars
Epidemiologists are interested in learning about:
a. All of these
b. The frequency and distribution of diseases and health conditions.
c. The causes of disease and ways to control or cure them
d. The causal relationships between diseases health conditions - Answer a. All of these
Determinants of disease:
a. Are any factors that influence whether or not a health condition occurs
b. Are causal factors of the health condition only
c. Do not include individual risk factors
d. All of these - Answer a. Are any factors that influence whether or not a health condition
occurs
Disease distribution refers to:
a. The who, when, and where of a disease
b. How many cases of a disease occur
c. A group of people with common characteristics
d. Disease determinants - Answer a. The who, when, and where of a disease
What work/discovery is Semmelweis known for? - Answer Hand hygiene and the prevention
of Purperal fever
,What work/discovery is Lind known for? - Answer Conducting an experimnetal study on diet
and scurvy
What work/discovery is Graunt known for? - Answer Publishing an analysis of the Bills of
Mortality
What work/discovery is Farr known for? - Answer Combining data on births, marriages, and
deaths for the General registry Offices to account for changes in populations and health
conditions
What work/discovery is Snow known for? - Answer Studying outbreaks of cholera using
epidemiologic methods
What work/discovery is Doll known for? - Answer studying the relationship between tobacco
smoking and lung cancer
When cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events,
suddenly occur in excess of normal expectancy within a geographic delimited area, we can
define the increase of cases as having a/an ____________ pattern.
a. Endemic
b. Epidemic
c. Pandemic
d. Hyperendemic - Answer b. Epidemic
Other than an epidemic, what else could prompt an increase in reported cases of an illness,
specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event?
a. Sudden increase in population size
b. Increased awareness
c. Changes in the surveillance system, for example changes in reporting procedures
d. All the options apply - Answer d. All the options apply
When conducting an outbreak investigation which strategies would be appropriate for case
finding?
a. Review records at the local health department
, b. All the options apply
c. Contact healthcare providers/laboratories
d. Public awareness - media
e. Interview reported cases - Answer b. All the options apply
Which of the following is NOT true about epidemic curves?
a. Epidemic curves depict the number of cases on the horizontal axis and the time on the
vertical axis.
b. Epidemic curves are histograms that show the distribution of incident cases over time.
c. The shape of the resulting epidemic curve can be used to propose hypotheses on the nature
of the disease and its mode of transmission.
d. Trace the evolution of a population outbreak. - Answer a. Epidemic curves depict the
number of cases on the horizontal axis and the time on the vertical axis.
Based on the data provided which Township/City showed the highest attack rates of jaundice?
a. Logan
b. West Branch Township
c. Ogemaw
d. Edwards - Answer b. West Branch Township
Based on the data provided which age/sex group showed the highest attack rates of jaundice?
a. 15 to 19 y.o. females
b. 30 to 34 y.o. males
c. 15 to 19 y.o. males
d. 10 to 19 y.o. males - Answer c. 15 to 19 y.o. males
(T or F) Based on the data provided St Joseph School showed higher rates of jaundice than West
Branch School. - Answer False
For each of the fractions shown below, indicate whether it is a "ratio", a "proportion", a "rate",
or "none" of the three.
Number of women in State A who died from heart disease in 2004/Number of women in State A
who died in 2004 - Answer Proportion
and All Correct Answers 2025/2026
Updated.
One of the 10 great achievements of public health in the 20th century was:
a. Inclusion of seat belts in all cars
b. New electronic cigarettes
c. Challenges to the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine
d. Emerging infectious diseases - Answer a. Inclusion of seat belts in all cars
Epidemiologists are interested in learning about:
a. All of these
b. The frequency and distribution of diseases and health conditions.
c. The causes of disease and ways to control or cure them
d. The causal relationships between diseases health conditions - Answer a. All of these
Determinants of disease:
a. Are any factors that influence whether or not a health condition occurs
b. Are causal factors of the health condition only
c. Do not include individual risk factors
d. All of these - Answer a. Are any factors that influence whether or not a health condition
occurs
Disease distribution refers to:
a. The who, when, and where of a disease
b. How many cases of a disease occur
c. A group of people with common characteristics
d. Disease determinants - Answer a. The who, when, and where of a disease
What work/discovery is Semmelweis known for? - Answer Hand hygiene and the prevention
of Purperal fever
,What work/discovery is Lind known for? - Answer Conducting an experimnetal study on diet
and scurvy
What work/discovery is Graunt known for? - Answer Publishing an analysis of the Bills of
Mortality
What work/discovery is Farr known for? - Answer Combining data on births, marriages, and
deaths for the General registry Offices to account for changes in populations and health
conditions
What work/discovery is Snow known for? - Answer Studying outbreaks of cholera using
epidemiologic methods
What work/discovery is Doll known for? - Answer studying the relationship between tobacco
smoking and lung cancer
When cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related events,
suddenly occur in excess of normal expectancy within a geographic delimited area, we can
define the increase of cases as having a/an ____________ pattern.
a. Endemic
b. Epidemic
c. Pandemic
d. Hyperendemic - Answer b. Epidemic
Other than an epidemic, what else could prompt an increase in reported cases of an illness,
specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event?
a. Sudden increase in population size
b. Increased awareness
c. Changes in the surveillance system, for example changes in reporting procedures
d. All the options apply - Answer d. All the options apply
When conducting an outbreak investigation which strategies would be appropriate for case
finding?
a. Review records at the local health department
, b. All the options apply
c. Contact healthcare providers/laboratories
d. Public awareness - media
e. Interview reported cases - Answer b. All the options apply
Which of the following is NOT true about epidemic curves?
a. Epidemic curves depict the number of cases on the horizontal axis and the time on the
vertical axis.
b. Epidemic curves are histograms that show the distribution of incident cases over time.
c. The shape of the resulting epidemic curve can be used to propose hypotheses on the nature
of the disease and its mode of transmission.
d. Trace the evolution of a population outbreak. - Answer a. Epidemic curves depict the
number of cases on the horizontal axis and the time on the vertical axis.
Based on the data provided which Township/City showed the highest attack rates of jaundice?
a. Logan
b. West Branch Township
c. Ogemaw
d. Edwards - Answer b. West Branch Township
Based on the data provided which age/sex group showed the highest attack rates of jaundice?
a. 15 to 19 y.o. females
b. 30 to 34 y.o. males
c. 15 to 19 y.o. males
d. 10 to 19 y.o. males - Answer c. 15 to 19 y.o. males
(T or F) Based on the data provided St Joseph School showed higher rates of jaundice than West
Branch School. - Answer False
For each of the fractions shown below, indicate whether it is a "ratio", a "proportion", a "rate",
or "none" of the three.
Number of women in State A who died from heart disease in 2004/Number of women in State A
who died in 2004 - Answer Proportion
