Question

Use the following terms to complete the following public health concepts/definitions:

Rye Syndrome	Double blind	Germany	Relative risk
Syphilis	Endemic rate	Decades	Heart Disease
Statists	Cause	Perspective	Shoe leather epidemiology
Risk Factors	Reporting bias	Tuskegee Syphilis Study	Epidemiology
Crude	Risk perception	Randomized	Women’s Health Initiative

1. The ______ is the usual and expected rate of frequency of a disease.

2. An epidemiologic investigation requires asking the who, where, and when questions. This kind of medical detective work is nicknamed ____________

3. Rather than speaking about causes of chronic disease, it is more precise to discuss _________________________.

4. Modern epidemiology involves history since finding the causes of chronic diseases requires looking back for _________________________.

9. The ultimate goal of many epidemiologic studies is to determine the _______________ of disease.

11. ________________________ occurs if the study group and the control group systematically report differently even if the exposure was the same.

13. The science of epidemiology rests on _____________________.

14. Rates help to put absolute values of health outcomes into _____.

16. As a result of the apparent irrationality of the public in response to risks that the experts estimated to be small, a field of study has developed concerning _____________________.

18. ____________study was stopped early on the basis that the risks had been found to outweigh the benefits

Answer 1

Answers and explanation

1. Endemic rate	Common presence of a disease in a particular region
2. Shoe leather epidemiology	Process that involves urgent need of medical professional to look into sudden health problems of people.
3. Risk factors	Presence of risk factors can also lead to increase in chronic disease in a population
4. Decades	Chronic means for a long period of time so, decades or 10 years of medical history should be checked.
9. Cause	Source of a disease is the first goal of investigation
11. Reporting bias	Difference in result due to presence or absence of exposure of certain information about a group in a study
13. Statistics	Data acquired through observation and experiment is very much important in epidemiology
14. Perspective	Number of death, affected and incidence gives a point of view while investigating about a disease
16. Risk perception	The point of view that was already set found to be wrong, which can change the course of the study.
18. Tuskegee syphilis study	Unfavorable or misleading risk-benefit ratio and many unethical reasons caused failure of this study