The field of epidemiology contributes to the management of healthcare organizations in all of the following ways except:

Determining the extent of disease in the community so healthcare organization leaders can plan for services
Creating healthy communities through the use of health promotion and prevention
Providing a basis for developing policy and regulatory decisions
Evaluating existing and potential preventative and therapeutic methods of healthcare delivery

b

What probability measure suggests there is a real difference when comparing events?

Epidemiological evidence
Association
Statistical significance
Cause or causation

c

What term is used to describe the study of how disease is distributed in the population?

Observational research
Population research
Epidemiology
Determinants of Health model

c

Which of the following epidemiology principles results in or contributes to the occurrence of another?

Scientific evidence
Association
Causation
Statistical significance

c

What epidemiology principle does not involve any intervention or change imposed by the investigator?

Epidemiological evidence
Experimental study
Determinants of Health model
Observational study

d

What measure is used to find all the cases of a particular disease?

Incidence
Prevalence
Sensitivity
Specificity

c

What measure is key in the health surveillance of forces during deployment?

Prevalence rates of disease
Disease and Injury (D&I) rates
Relative risk
Sensitivity rate to illness

not c

Of the following terms, which one describes a relationship (usually a statistical correlation) between two or more events?

Statistical relation
Epidemiological evidence
Association
Causation

c

What measure compares the incidence of disease in the exposed population with that in the unexposed population for a specific factor or determinant of health?

Adjusted risk
Comparative risk
Absolute risk
Relative risk

not b

During a lecture, an epidemiologist refers to factors underlying the determinants of health and the interplay between them. Which of the following factors is considered a Determinant of Health?

Access to quality healthcare
Physical environment
Policy Making
Knowledge of the medical system

c

What measure looks at the number of new events during a given period of time?

Prevalence
Crude rate
Adjusted rate
Incidence

d

What are the two key measures of the occurrence of disease?

Sensitivity and specificity
Association and causation
Incidence and prevalence rates
Adjusted and crude rates

not b

What occupies the majority of epidemiological activities?

Epidemiological studies
Surveillance of disease
Ongoing risk assessments
Data reporting

b

Which of the following is a role of epidemiology in population health and in the management of healthcare organizations?

Preventing disease through study of the cause of the disease and its risk factors by eliminating or reducing exposure to those factors
Examining the determinants of health of all deployed troops
Establishing a health surveillance program for retired military personnel
Creating healthy communities through the use of health promotion and prevention

a

What measure is used remove the effect of a variable such as age and gender?

Exclusion rate
Specific rate
Crude rate
Adjusted rate

d