Hlth 444

Health 444: Study Guide for Final Exam

• Know Characteristics of Epidemiology

• Population Focus

• Distribution

• Determinants

• Outcomes

• Quantification

• Control of Health Problems

• Distinguish between Epidemic and Pandemic

• Define:

- Crude Death Rate: number of death in a given year/ reference population

• Case-Fatality Rate: The number of deaths due to a disease that occur among persons who are afflicted with that disease. Number of deaths due to disease “X” / Number of cases of disease “X” x 100 during a time period

• Cause-specific Rate: A measure that refers to mortality (or frequency of a given disease) divided by the population size at the midpoint of a time period times a multiplier.= mortality(or frequency of a given disease)/population size at midpoint during the year x 100.000

• Prevalence: The number of existing cases of a disease or health condition, or deaths in a population at some designated time.

• Incidence: Refers to the occurrence of new disease or mortality within a defined period of observation (e.g., a week, month, year, or other time period) in a specified population

• Know Examples of Reportable and Notifiable Diseases:

▪ Sexually transmitted diseases

▪ Rubella

▪ Tetanus

▪ Measles

▪ Plague

▪ Foodborne disease

• Distinguish between Morbidity : illnesses due to a specific disease or health condition

• and Mortality: death (e.g., death from various causes

• Know the Types of Information Epidemiology provide

- Provides valuable information for the following activities:

▪ Prevention of disease

▪ Design of interventions

▪ Conduct of additional research

• Define Descriptive Epidemiology – be able to give uses for Descriptive Epidemiology

o The field of descriptive epidemiology classifies the occurrence of...