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Question 1 of 37

What type of bias occurs when the outcome influences the exposure classification?

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Question 2 of 37

Which of the following is a responsibility of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?

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Question 3 of 37

For which would a screening test be most appropriate?

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Question 4 of 37

A familial aggregation pattern exists for cancer of all the following organs EXCEPT

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Question 5 of 37

What is the impact of increasing the cutoff point of a diagnostic test on sensitivity and specificity?

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Question 6 of 37

Current public health surveillance targets which of the following? (Choose one wrong answer)

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Question 7 of 37

Health-care providers might be important sources of surveillance data used by public health officials, and they should receive feedback to close the surveillance loop as a courtesy; however, the results almost never have any relevance to patient care provided by those health-care providers.

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Question 8 of 37

The term 'morbidity' refers to:

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Question 9 of 37

What type of study design involves randomly assigning participants to different interventions?

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Question 10 of 37

Secondary prevention primarily aims to:

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Question 11 of 37

What is a secondary attack rate?

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Question 12 of 37

John Snow's investigation of cholera is considered a model for epidemiologic field investigations because it included a: (Choose one wrong answer)

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Question 13 of 37

Which of the following mortality rates use the estimated total mid-year population as its denominator? (Choose one wrong answer)

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Question 14 of 37

The incidence of anorexia nervosa has been increasing recently. True statements about this disease include

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Question 15 of 37

Which best describes the importance of discovering all of the variables that may be involved in creating a disease state in some persons?

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Question 16 of 37

For the cruise ship scenario described in Question 7, how would you display the time course of the outbreak? (Choose one best answer)

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Question 17 of 37

All the following statements about blindness are true EXCEPT

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Question 18 of 37

Routine analysis of notifiable disease surveillance data at the state health department might include looking at the number of cases of a disease reported this week â€¦ (Choose one wrong answer)

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Question 19 of 37

All the following chemicals have been associated with kidney disease EXCEPT

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Question 20 of 37

What is the main purpose of an observational study?

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Question 21 of 37

A spot map is particularly useful for displaying:

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Question 22 of 37

Which measure is used to estimate the risk of developing a disease in a population over a specific period?

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Question 23 of 37

The case definition used for surveillance of a health problem should be the same as the case definition used for clinical (treatment) purposes.

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Question 24 of 37

Workers associated with occupational exposure to lead include all the following EXCEPT

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Question 25 of 37

A scatter diagram is the graph of choice for plotting:

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Question 26 of 37

The psychosis most likely to occur in young adults (ages 15 to 24) is

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Question 27 of 37

Which best describes the advantage of the ecosocial epidemiology model over both the web of causation model and the epidemiological triangle model? (Select One that does not apply..)

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Question 28 of 37

In a descriptive study, what type of data is typically collected?

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Question 29 of 37

In country A there are 35 new cases of breast cancer per 100,000 adult women per year, in country B the number is 90 per 100,000. Which of the following is the most likely explanation?

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Question 30 of 37

A key feature of a cross-sectional study is that: (Choose one wrong answer)

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Question 31 of 37

Factors associated with a poor prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis include all the following EXCEPT

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Question 32 of 37

In a cross-sectional study, what is measured?

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Question 33 of 37

The term 'epidemiology' is derived from which language?

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Question 34 of 37

The measure of spread most affected by one extreme value is the:

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Question 35 of 37

During an outbreak in the hospital, all staff members were given immunoglobulin if they were not already immune to the disease. Which type of immunity will the staff who received the immunoglobulin have?

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Question 36 of 37

A major complication of transfusion of blood and blood products has been the development of posttransfusion hepatitis. Research indicates that

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Question 37 of 37

Which of the following statements about bronchiectasis is true?

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