Test Bank For An Introduction To Community Health 7th Edition By James F Robert R

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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