REVIEW SET PROVIDING DETAILED
ANSWER KEY
◉Health Issues in the 21st Century. Answer: Health care delivery
and cost
Affordable Care Act (2010)
Environmental problems
Lifestyle diseases
Communicable diseases
Alcohol and other drug abuse
Health disparities
Disasters
Public health preparedness
◉Health Education. Answer: plays a role in the future of our nation's
overall health
◉Measuring frequencies. Answer: Ratios
Rates/proportions
,◉Health-related states or events. Answer: diseases, disorders, any
behavior/activity that positively or negatively impacts health
◉In specified populations. Answer: epidemiology examines health-
related states or events on an aggregate (or community) level
E.G. measures of central location, frequency measures, measures of
risk
◉Morbidity. Answer: Incidence of a specific notifiable disease
◉Mortality. Answer: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population
of that area
◉Natality. Answer: the ratio of live births in an area to the
population of that area
◉Frequency measures. Answer: Compare one part of the data to
another part __________
or
Compare one part of the data to the entire distribution
_____________/___________
◉T. Answer: Numerator and denominator do not necessarily need to
be related
, T/F
◉ratios. Answer: Usually, __________ number or rate goes in the
numerator
Allows for easier interpretation
◉Ratios. Answer: Calculated by dividing the numerator by the
denominator
◉Numerator. Answer: Number or rate of events, items, person, etc.
in one group
◉Denominator. Answer: Number or rate of events, items, person,
etc. in another group
◉Relative risk ratios. Answer: compares and quantifies the risk of a
health-related event among one group with the risk among another
group
◉Rates/Proportions. Answer: A comparison of a part to the whole
Calculated by dividing the numerator by the denominator
◉Calculating a rate/proportion