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Case Study: Active carrier, Active primary prevention, Agent, Airborne transmission, Analytic epidemiology, Biological transmission, Carrier, Case, Case definition, Case severity, Cause, Chain of infection, Common-source epidemic, Convalescent carrier, Descriptive epidemiology, Direct transmission, Effectiveness, Efficacy, Endemic, Environment, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Fomite, Healthy carrier, Host, Incubatory carrier, Index case, Indirect transmission, Intermittent carrier, Mechanical transmission, Mixed epidemic, Modes of disease transmission, Pandemic, Passive carrier, Passive primary prevention, Pathogen, Portal of entry, Portal of exit, Primary case, Primary prevention, Propagated epidemic, Rehabilitation, Reservoir, Risk factor, Secondary case, Secondary prevention, Suspect case, Tertiary prevention, Time, Vector, Vector-borne transmission, Vehicle, Vehicle-borne transmission, Zoonosis

• Describe important historic events in the field of epidemiology.
• List and describe the contributions made by several key individuals to epidemiology.

Question 1: Recognize the development and use of certain study designs in the advancement of epidemiology

Anthrax, Atomic theory, Childbed fever, Cholera, Multifactorial etiology, Scurvy, Smallpox, Typhoid fever, Typhus, Variolation, Vitamins

• Define disease and identify common sources and modes of disease transmission.
• Classify acute and chronic diseases according to infectivity and communicability.
• Understand the major stages in the disease process.
• Know the five major categories of disease.
• Define zoonosis and identify selected zoonotic diseases and potential carriers of infectious organisms that may be zoonotic.
• Describe notifiable disease reporting in the United States.
• Discuss immunity and immunizations against infectious diseases.
• Identify the changing emphasis of epidemiologic study.
• Describe common nutritional deficiency diseases and disorders.
• Describe selected chronic diseases and conditions

Question 2: Active immunity, Activity limitation, Acute, Allergies and inflammatory diseases, Antibiotics, Antibodies, Antigen, Antigenicity, Cancer, Chronic, Communicability, Communicable disease, Congenital and hereditary diseases, Convalescence, Defection, Defervescence, Degenerative diseases, Disability, Disease, Etiology, Fastigium, Herd immunity, Horizontal transmission, Immunization, Impairment, Incubation period, Invasiveness, Isolation, Latency period, Malnutrition, Metabolic diseases, Overnutrition, Participation restriction, Passive immunity, Pathogens, Personal hygiene, Prodromal period, Quarantine, Toxin, Undernutrition, Vertical transmission, Viability, Virulence, Zoonosis

• Define descriptive epidemiology.
• Describe uses, strengths, and limitations of selected descriptive study designs (ecologic study, case report, case series, and cross-sectional survey).
• Define the four general types of data.
• Define ratio, proportion, and rate.
• Identify ways to describe epidemiologic data according to person, place, and time.
• Distinguish between crude and age-adjusted rates and be able to calculate age-adjusted rates using either the direct or the indirect method.
• Define the standardized morbidity (or mortality) ratio.
• Identify selected tables, graphs, and numerical methods (measures of central tendency and dispersion) for describing epidemiologic data according to person, place, and time.
• Describe selected measures for evaluating the strength of the association between variables.