Test Bank For An Introduction To Community Health 7th Edition By James F Robert R
Chapter: Chapter03 True/False
1. A primary care physician is concerned with the course of a disease in an individual, while an epidemiologist is concerned with the course of disease in a population.
Ans: True
Page: 63
2. An unexpectedly large number of cases of an illness, specific health-related behavior, or other health-related event in a particular population defines a pandemic.
Ans: False
Page: 64
3. An endemic disease is one that occurs regularly in a population as a matter of course.
Ans: True
Page: 64
4. People afflicted with a disease are referred to as cases.
Ans: True
Page: 66
5. The rate of an illness in a population is the natality rate.
Ans: False
Page: 66
6. A disease that lasts three months or less is a chronic disease.
Ans: False
Page: 67
7. An attack rate is an incidence rate calculated for a particular population for a single disease outbreak and is expressed as a percentage.
Ans: True
Page: 68
8. The electronic reporting system used by state health departments and the CDC to report notifiable disease is Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Ans: False
Page: 70
9. Notifiable disease information reported to local health departments is highly accurate.
Ans: False
Page: 70
10. Sometimes notifiable diseases are not reported to the local health department because patients recover without a diagnosis being confirmed.
Ans: True
Page: 70
11. The average number of years a person from a specific cohort is projected to live from a given point in time is their life expectancy.
Ans: True
Page: 76
12. The number of years of healthy life expected, on average, in a given population is the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
Ans: False
Page: 78
13. Vital statistics are statistical summaries of records of major life events such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and infant deaths.
Ans: True
Page: 81
14. An epidemiological study aimed at testing hypotheses is a descriptive study.
Ans: False
Page: 84
15. The period between exposure to a disease and the onset of symptoms is the incubation period.
Ans: True
Page: 86
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