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Chapter 1

1. Which disease outbreak occurred between 1346 and 1352 and claimed up to one-third of the population of Europe?

2. Operations research illustrates which uses of epidemiology?

3. The probability that an event will occur-an individual will become ill or die within a stated period of time or by a certain age-is known as___.

4. Who was the physician who determined that a human disease was caused by a specific living organism and then developed four postulates to demonstrate the association between a microorganism and a disease?

5. Whose name is associated with a natural experiment carried out during an outbreak of cholera in London?

Chapter 2

1. A type of correlative association between an exposure and an effect is a _______.

2. The lowest dose at which a particular response occurs is known as the _______.

3. The category in a frequency distribution that has the highest frequency of cases is known as the _______.

Chapter 3

1. Define and compare the following measures: infant mortality rate, fetal death rate, and perinatal mortality rate. (essay) p. 72-74

Chapter 4

1. Examples of reportable and notifiable diseases include ________________.

2. The purpose of state cancer registries is ______________.

3. Studies of the effects of exposure to teratogens have used data from ________ certificates.

Chapter 5

1. Name some examples of person variables

2. ______ can be spatial or temporal.

Chapter 6

1. Determining whether a particular exposure to a disease is related to a given outcome should involve formulating a ________.

2. An ______ between an exposure factor and an outcome could be direct or noncausal.