Week 1 assignment
Key Concepts
Worksheet
Key Concepts Worksheet
Guidelines& Grading Rubric
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to identify key concepts
in epidemiology that will assist the student in understanding the purpose of
epidemiology as it relates to clinical practice, surveillance and prevention of
disease, and healthcare research.You will work on building a foundation of
definitions and an understanding of how they apply to monitoring disease in
populations.
Course Outcomes
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the
ability to:
(CO#1) Define key terms in epidemiology, community health,
and population-based research.
Due Date: Sunday 11:59 p.m. (MT) at the end of Week 1
Total Points Possible:50
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Complete
the Epidemiological Key Concepts Worksheet.
2. For each
question identify the correct answer and cite the source used to answer the
questions
3. Submit
the worksheet to the DropBox by 11:59 p.m. MT Sunday of Week 1
Course Information Worksheet
Prior to completing this worksheet, review the Week 1
lecture and reading assignments (Chapters 1-4 of your course text). Provide a
complete answer to each question. Each
question is worth 5 points. Please cite the source of each answer below the
answer as in the example provided below.
EXAMPLE:
Question: Modes of indirect common vehicle disease
transmission include single exposure,multiple exposures, and continuous
exposure.
Source:
Gordis, L. (2014). Epidemiology (5thed.). Philadelphia, PA:
Elsevier. Chapter 2, p. 20.
1. Define
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary prevention.
2. True or
False: Prevention and treatment of a
single specific disease are exclusive activities that do not occur together
when providing care to a patient.
3. The
________________ Concept is important because in counting incidence and
prevalence of disease it is not sufficient to count only clinically apparent
cases, but those who are asymptomatic or exposed without infection.
4. Please
define the following:
Clinical Disease –
Preclinical Disease –
Subclinical Disease –
Persistent (Chronic) Disease –
Latent Disease –
5. Match the
following terms with their definition:
____ Pandemic A. Habitual presence
of a disease within a geographic area.
____ Endemic B.
Occurrence of a disease in a community/geographic area in
excess
of normal expectancy.
____ Common-Vehicle Exposure C. Resistance of a group of people to a
disease because a large
portion
of the population is immune.
____ Epidemic D.
An excessive occurrence of disease present globally.
____ Herd Immunity E. When a group of people are exposed to a
substance or organism that causes common illness.
6. What is
the one medical advance that is associated with the Black Death in Europe in
the late 1300’s?
7. This is a
two part question:
A. Define,
through a fractional representation, what attack rate is.
B. After a
large wedding reception several people develop symptoms of acute
gastroenteritis. It appeared to be tied
to eating a specific seafood salad sered.
Using the following 2 by 2 table, numerically represent the attack rate
for wedding attendies who ate the seafood salad
Ate
Seafood Salad Did not eat Seafood
Salad
Gastroenteritis symptoms 72 15
No gastroenteritis symptoms 24 135
8. Define
the following: active surveillance, passive surveillance, incidence rate,and
prevalence rate.
9. There are
two parts to this question:
A. What are
two reasons that the prevalence rate of a disease I a community could decrease?
B. What are
age-adjusted death rates used for?
10. Name and
define at least two measures of mortality as fractional representations.
