HLTH 503: Quiz One Set
Questions and Answers 2025
latest update
Epidemiology - answer ____ is concerned with the occurrence,
distribution, and determinants of "health-related states or events."
(p. 8)
Framingham Heart Study - answer The ongoing ____, begun in 1948,
is one of the pioneering research investigations of risk factors for
coronary heart disease. (p. 41)
John Snow - answer ____ work, a classic study that linked the cholera
epidemic to contaminated water supplies, is noteworthy because it
utilized many of the features of epidemiologic inquiry: a spot map of
cases and tabulation of fatal attacks and deaths. (p. 30)
Determinants - answer ____ are factors or events that are capable of
bringing about a change in health. (p. 8)
Population - answer Epidemiology examines disease occurrence
among ____ groups rather than among individuals. (p. 13)
Morbidity, Mortality - answer The former, ____, designates illness,
whereas the latter, ____, refers to death. (p. 14)
Quantification - answer ____ refers to the translation of qualitative
impressions into numbers. (p. 17)
Qualitative - answer ____ sources of information about disease may
be, for example, a physician's observations derived through medical
, practice about the types of people among whom a disease seems to
be common. (p. 17)
Epidemic - answer An ____ refers to an excessive occurrence of a
disease. (p. 18)
Love Canal - answer ____ was a toxic waste disposal site located in
Niagara Falls, New York. It was the location for burial of thousands
of chemical-filled drums deposited by the Hooker Chemicals &
Plastics Corporation. (p. 20)
Pandemic - answer Related to the term epidemic is the term ____,
which refers to an epidemic on a worldwide scale. (p. 21)
Epidemic - answer The term ____ is used to characterize a disease
that is habitually present in a particular geographical region. (p. 21)
Surveillance - answer The word ____ denotes the systematic
collection of data pertaining to the occurrence of specific diseases,
the analysis and interpretation of these data, and the dissemination
of consolidated and processed information to contributors to the
surveillance program and other interested persons. (p. 21)
Plague - answer During the medieval period, the Black Death, aka
the ____ killed more than 25% of the European population. (p. 23)
Edward Jenner - answer ____ is credited with the development of the
smallpox vaccination, a lower-risk method for conferring immunity
against smallpox than variolation. (p. 27)
Hippocrates - answer Gave birth to the idea that disease might be
associated with the physical environment; his thinking represented
a movement away from supernatural explanations of disease
Questions and Answers 2025
latest update
Epidemiology - answer ____ is concerned with the occurrence,
distribution, and determinants of "health-related states or events."
(p. 8)
Framingham Heart Study - answer The ongoing ____, begun in 1948,
is one of the pioneering research investigations of risk factors for
coronary heart disease. (p. 41)
John Snow - answer ____ work, a classic study that linked the cholera
epidemic to contaminated water supplies, is noteworthy because it
utilized many of the features of epidemiologic inquiry: a spot map of
cases and tabulation of fatal attacks and deaths. (p. 30)
Determinants - answer ____ are factors or events that are capable of
bringing about a change in health. (p. 8)
Population - answer Epidemiology examines disease occurrence
among ____ groups rather than among individuals. (p. 13)
Morbidity, Mortality - answer The former, ____, designates illness,
whereas the latter, ____, refers to death. (p. 14)
Quantification - answer ____ refers to the translation of qualitative
impressions into numbers. (p. 17)
Qualitative - answer ____ sources of information about disease may
be, for example, a physician's observations derived through medical
, practice about the types of people among whom a disease seems to
be common. (p. 17)
Epidemic - answer An ____ refers to an excessive occurrence of a
disease. (p. 18)
Love Canal - answer ____ was a toxic waste disposal site located in
Niagara Falls, New York. It was the location for burial of thousands
of chemical-filled drums deposited by the Hooker Chemicals &
Plastics Corporation. (p. 20)
Pandemic - answer Related to the term epidemic is the term ____,
which refers to an epidemic on a worldwide scale. (p. 21)
Epidemic - answer The term ____ is used to characterize a disease
that is habitually present in a particular geographical region. (p. 21)
Surveillance - answer The word ____ denotes the systematic
collection of data pertaining to the occurrence of specific diseases,
the analysis and interpretation of these data, and the dissemination
of consolidated and processed information to contributors to the
surveillance program and other interested persons. (p. 21)
Plague - answer During the medieval period, the Black Death, aka
the ____ killed more than 25% of the European population. (p. 23)
Edward Jenner - answer ____ is credited with the development of the
smallpox vaccination, a lower-risk method for conferring immunity
against smallpox than variolation. (p. 27)
Hippocrates - answer Gave birth to the idea that disease might be
associated with the physical environment; his thinking represented
a movement away from supernatural explanations of disease
