Epidemiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Excluding skin cancer, which of the listed three demographics count the incidence of the following cancers as their top 3 most common in the United States? _____

Answer: Children

Flashcard 2: Validity of a Screening Test: No answer _____

Answer: :)

Flashcard 3: bias means _____

Answer: systemic errors

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Flashcard 4: demographic gap starts increasing in stage _____

Answer: 2 

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Flashcard 5: _____ study goes from effect to cause

Answer: case control

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Flashcard 6: golem bias

Answer:

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Flashcard 7: nested case control is a type of _____

Answer: cohort study

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Flashcard 8: * Crude Birth Rate (CBR) = _____ \(\times\) _____ * Crude Death Rate (CDR) = _____ \(\times\) _____ * Annual Growth Rate = _____ = _____ in _____ * Sex Ratio = _____ = _____ * Dependency Ratio = _____

Answer: \(\frac {Number\ of\ live\ births\ during\ the\ year\ in\ particular\ area }{Estimated\ Mid-year\ population}\)

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Flashcard 9: types of screening are

Answer: mass screening high risk screening multiphasic screening

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Flashcard 10: primary prevention prevents _____

Answer: contrction of disease

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