Epidemiology Essentials Quiz
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Epidemiology Essentials Quiz

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What is the primary focus of epidemiology?

  • Developing new treatments for diseases
  • Analyzing individual patient cases
  • Studying the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations (correct)
  • Conducting clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies

    • Which type of prevention involves early detection of existing diseases to reduce severity and complications?

  • Quaternary prevention
  • Tertiary prevention
  • Secondary prevention (correct)
  • Primary prevention

    • What is the purpose of studying disease distribution in populations?

  • To perform surgical interventions
  • To develop new pharmaceutical drugs
  • To speculate about the cause of diseases and generate hypotheses (correct)
  • To conduct individual patient case studies

    • What is the focus of tertiary prevention?

    <p>Reducing the impact of the disease</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the need for standard ways to quantify disease burden?

    <p>To measure the impact of diseases on a given population</p> Signup and view all the answers

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