EPID 309 Exam 1
Epidemic - answer Breakout in a specific region or community that happens in excess of
normal expectancy
Epidemiology - answerThe study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in in specified populations and the application to control health
problems.
Who was Robert Koch and what year? - answerHe was the germ theorist with 4
postulates in 1880
What were Robert Koch's 4 postulates? - answer1. Micro-bacteria must be present in all
cases of disease
2. Pathogen can be isolated form host and grown in pure culture
3. Healthy susceptible host
4. Reisolated and shown to be the same
Is Epidemiology a Quantitive discipline? - answeryes
What does epidemiology focus on? - answerOccurrence of health and disease in the
population
What is epidemiology sometimes called? - answerPopulation medicine
What are three things that epidemiology does? - answerHealth promotion, getting rid of
bad health outcomes, and prevention of disease.
What is an example of a pandemic disease? What year was it? - answerInfluenza -
1918
What is one disease that has been eradicated? When? - answersmallpox 1979
Primary prevention - answerEducation, vaccines, stopping the disease for it happens
Secondary prevention - answerhealth screenings, early detections, limiting
Tertiary prevention - answerRestore function with rehab and physical therapy.
What kind of disease was the Plague and when was it? - answerIt was an epidemic in
the middle ages.
What did Edward Jenner do? When? - answercreated the smallpox vaccine in 1796
Epidemic - answer Breakout in a specific region or community that happens in excess of
normal expectancy
Epidemiology - answerThe study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
states or events in in specified populations and the application to control health
problems.
Who was Robert Koch and what year? - answerHe was the germ theorist with 4
postulates in 1880
What were Robert Koch's 4 postulates? - answer1. Micro-bacteria must be present in all
cases of disease
2. Pathogen can be isolated form host and grown in pure culture
3. Healthy susceptible host
4. Reisolated and shown to be the same
Is Epidemiology a Quantitive discipline? - answeryes
What does epidemiology focus on? - answerOccurrence of health and disease in the
population
What is epidemiology sometimes called? - answerPopulation medicine
What are three things that epidemiology does? - answerHealth promotion, getting rid of
bad health outcomes, and prevention of disease.
What is an example of a pandemic disease? What year was it? - answerInfluenza -
1918
What is one disease that has been eradicated? When? - answersmallpox 1979
Primary prevention - answerEducation, vaccines, stopping the disease for it happens
Secondary prevention - answerhealth screenings, early detections, limiting
Tertiary prevention - answerRestore function with rehab and physical therapy.
What kind of disease was the Plague and when was it? - answerIt was an epidemic in
the middle ages.
What did Edward Jenner do? When? - answercreated the smallpox vaccine in 1796
