SAS 13 exam 1 questions with
complete solutions graded A+
Disease-Society-Science Triangle - correct answer ✔✔ -how do diseases change societies?
-How does human action influence disease?
-What does society expect from science?
-How does science impact society
-how does science change disease
-What causes disease?
Vincent Van Gough - correct answer ✔✔ How did his illness contribute to the way he painted?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔ Father of the microscope
Factor V Leiden - correct answer ✔✔ a variant of the protein Factor V which is needed for blood
clotting (coagulation).
It is named after the city of Leiden (The Netherlands), where it was first identified in 1994.
blood that has an increased tendency to clot.
most common cause of hereditary thrombophilia in the US.
Dutch elm disease - correct answer ✔✔ -identified by a plant pathologist in the netherlands
-caused by infection with a fungus called Ophiostoma ulmi
,-spread by elm bark beetle
-origionally native to Asia
HIV/AIDS - correct answer ✔✔ 1987: HIV/AIDS added to the US list of "communicable diseases
of public health significance"; HIV-positive travelers barred from entering the US
1989: Dutchman Hans Verhoef jailed upon entry into US for not declaring he carried HIV
1992: VIIIth International AIDS in Amsterdam, not Boston as planned
2010: HIV/AIDS removed from the list
The Dutch disease - correct answer ✔✔ 1960s discovery of large natural gas
deposits in the North Sea
exports caused increase in wealth from
foreign currency inflow
Dutch guilder became stronger
exports of all non-gas products less competitive on the world market
economic disease/ metaphor for disease
ICD-10 - correct answer ✔✔ international Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related
Health Problems
, Spondylopathies - correct answer ✔✔ Chapter XIII: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and
connective tissues
Tuberculosis of bones and joints - correct answer ✔✔ Chapter I: Certain infectious and parasitic
diseases
Why use the ICD-10-CM codes? - correct answer ✔✔ -to facilitate communication
-just like police codes
How is ICD-10-CM used? - correct answer ✔✔ • mortality statistics
- International List of Causes of Death most US death certificates filed since 1977 list an ICD
code
• public health/morbidity data
-ICD codes are used by government health authorities to track certain diseases, e.g. cancer and
flu, to understand how they spread, where they are prevalent, and to budget programs or
research to work on prevention.
• billing purposes
-electronic medical records
-medical coding
ICD-10-CM and terrorism - correct answer ✔✔ new codes: U01-U03
1) to allow the identification of deaths from terrorism reported on death certificates
2) for injuries and illnesses from terrorism reported on medical records used for statistical
purposes and for reimbursement
Designated by Fed gov not medical examiner
complete solutions graded A+
Disease-Society-Science Triangle - correct answer ✔✔ -how do diseases change societies?
-How does human action influence disease?
-What does society expect from science?
-How does science impact society
-how does science change disease
-What causes disease?
Vincent Van Gough - correct answer ✔✔ How did his illness contribute to the way he painted?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - correct answer ✔✔ Father of the microscope
Factor V Leiden - correct answer ✔✔ a variant of the protein Factor V which is needed for blood
clotting (coagulation).
It is named after the city of Leiden (The Netherlands), where it was first identified in 1994.
blood that has an increased tendency to clot.
most common cause of hereditary thrombophilia in the US.
Dutch elm disease - correct answer ✔✔ -identified by a plant pathologist in the netherlands
-caused by infection with a fungus called Ophiostoma ulmi
,-spread by elm bark beetle
-origionally native to Asia
HIV/AIDS - correct answer ✔✔ 1987: HIV/AIDS added to the US list of "communicable diseases
of public health significance"; HIV-positive travelers barred from entering the US
1989: Dutchman Hans Verhoef jailed upon entry into US for not declaring he carried HIV
1992: VIIIth International AIDS in Amsterdam, not Boston as planned
2010: HIV/AIDS removed from the list
The Dutch disease - correct answer ✔✔ 1960s discovery of large natural gas
deposits in the North Sea
exports caused increase in wealth from
foreign currency inflow
Dutch guilder became stronger
exports of all non-gas products less competitive on the world market
economic disease/ metaphor for disease
ICD-10 - correct answer ✔✔ international Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related
Health Problems
, Spondylopathies - correct answer ✔✔ Chapter XIII: Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and
connective tissues
Tuberculosis of bones and joints - correct answer ✔✔ Chapter I: Certain infectious and parasitic
diseases
Why use the ICD-10-CM codes? - correct answer ✔✔ -to facilitate communication
-just like police codes
How is ICD-10-CM used? - correct answer ✔✔ • mortality statistics
- International List of Causes of Death most US death certificates filed since 1977 list an ICD
code
• public health/morbidity data
-ICD codes are used by government health authorities to track certain diseases, e.g. cancer and
flu, to understand how they spread, where they are prevalent, and to budget programs or
research to work on prevention.
• billing purposes
-electronic medical records
-medical coding
ICD-10-CM and terrorism - correct answer ✔✔ new codes: U01-U03
1) to allow the identification of deaths from terrorism reported on death certificates
2) for injuries and illnesses from terrorism reported on medical records used for statistical
purposes and for reimbursement
Designated by Fed gov not medical examiner
