CMAN 380 Final Exam Questions and Answers 2023/2024

CMAN 380 Final Exam Questions and Answers 2023/2024 goal of epidemiology` correct answers to improve health outcomes in a population rate correct answers number of events/populations at risk x 100,000 incidence correct answers number of new cases of an illness/injury that occurs within a specific time prevalence correct answers measures all of the existing cases at a given point in time prospective study correct answers establishes a causal association and a temporal relationship, all subjects are free of disease, data is collected over time retrospective study correct answers does NOT establish a causal association, investigators go back in time to study a population that was at risk (subjects have already has the illness/injury) confounding factor correct answers variable that effects both the exposure and the outcome; must be identifiable to account for what may impact the direct and indirect variables evidenced based research correct answers taking findings from studies and implementing them into practice pathogenesis correct answers how an infection or disease develops in the body/chain of events leading to the disease tuberculosis transmission correct answers droplet nuclei (airborne) . . . . . .