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how would you compare 125 pregnancies in a pop of 112,085?
125/112,085 x 100,000. gives you pregnancies per 100,000 people.
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what is crude death rate?
# of deaths per year/total pop mid-year x1000
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what is cause specific death rate?
# of deaths from that cause per year/total pop at mid-year x1000
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what is age-specific death rate?
# of deaths by a certain cause per year/total mid-year pop of people of a certain age x1000
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what is maternal death rate?
maternal deaths over live births x1000
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what is infantmortality rate?
deaths of children <1 over live births that year x1000
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what is neonatal death rate?
deaths <28 days over live births AND fetal deaths that year x1000
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what is fetal death rate?
deaths during 20-28 weeks over live births AND fetal deaths that year.
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morbidity vs incidence?
mobidity is another term for "illness". so heart disease, obesity are mobidities.
incidence is the rate of the mobidities.
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description studies and correlation studies fall under what type?
A) analytic studies
B) experimental trials
C) descriptive studies
C) descriptive studies (this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
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what type of study has cause-and-effect?
analytic studies
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The Vit.D study was what kind of study?
A) descriptive
B) experimental
C) analytic
A) descriptive (this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
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The Framingham heart study was what kind of study?
A) experimental
B) analytic
C) descriptive
B) analytic (this multiple choice question has been scrambled)
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In the natural hx of the disease, in the prepathogenesis phase, what level of prevention do we use?
primary, secondary or tertiary?
primary
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In the hx of disease, pathogenesis comes after prepathogenesis. In later pathogenesis, sx manifests. We use what level of prevention?
primary, secondary or tertiary?
secondary and tertiary.
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Epi concept: what is reliability of a measure?
reproducible and consistent results.
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Epi concept: What is validity of the measure?
accuracy
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Epi concept: what is sensitivity?
correctly IDs those that do have the disease
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Epi concept: what is specificity?
ID those that I do not have the disease.
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Epi concept: susceptibility
chances of getting the disease if exposed.
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what is crude death rate?
all deaths in a pop, no matter what the cause.
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what death rate is used to compare health in different countries, states or other areas?
infant mortality rate.
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what is a surveillance process?
surveys from the CDC to determine health trends.
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