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| What is the term for the review of data for accuracy and completeness? |
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| What type of graph shows the frequency of cases for categories of a categorical (discrete) variable such as yes/no variables? |
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| What is similar to a bar chart but is used for continuous variables? |
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| What type of variable could have an infinite no of values along a continuum? |
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| Height, weight, and blood sugar levels are all examples of what type of variable? |
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| What type of graph is used to display trends, eg. time trends? |
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| What type of graph shows the proportion of cases according to several categories? |
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| What is defined as "the value obtained by dividing one quantity by another?" |
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| Rates, proportions, and percentages are all examples of what term? |
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| What is a type of ratio in which the numerator is a part of the denominator? |
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| A percentage is a part of what other 2 categories? |
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| What differs from a proportion b/c the denominator involves a measure of time? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| what refers to the no of cases of a dz or other health phenomenon being studied? |
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| Do single cases have public health significance? |
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| they can if they are unusual |
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| What refers tot he occurence of new dz or mortality w/in a defined period of observation (eg week, mo, yr, or other time period) in a *specified population*? |
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| What is the term for the members of the population who are capable of developing the dz or condition being studied? |
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| What is the number of existing cases of a dz or health condition, or deaths in a population at some designated time? |
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| What term refers to all cases, dz, health condition, or deaths that exist at a particular pt in time relative to a specific population from which the cases are derived? |
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| What term refers to all cases, dz, health condition, or deaths that exist at a particular pt in time relative to a specific population from which the cases are derived? |
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| What term refers to all cases, dz, health condition, or deaths that exist at a particular pt in time relative to a specific population from which the cases are derived? |
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| what term refers to all cases of a dz w/in a period of time? |
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| What term refers to cases diagnosed at any time during the person's lifetime? |
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| 4 mss of morbidity and mortality? |
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| crude rates, case fatality rates, proportional mortality ratio, cause-specific rates |
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| what is a type of rate that has not been modified to take account of any of the factors such as the demographic make-up of the population that may affect the observed rate? |
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| what is a type of rate that has not been modified to take account of any of the factors such as the demographic make-up of the population that may affect the observed rate? |
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| What is a population from which cases of a dz have been taken? |
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| What is a term for the no of deaths d/t a dz that occur among persons who are afflicted w/that dz? |
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| What is a term for the no of deaths w/in a population d/t a specific dz or cuase divided by the total no of deaths in the population? |
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| proportional mortality ratio |
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| what is a ms that refers to mortality (or frequency of a given dz) divided by the population size at midpt of a time period times a multiplier? |
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| What is a term for the no of cases per age group of population during a specified time period? |
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| What is a rate of morbidity or mortality in a population in which statistical procedures have applied to permit fair comparisons across populations by removing the effect of differences in the composition of various populations. what is a factor in this modification? |
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| adjusted rate. age is a factor used in rate adjustment |
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| What is known as external validity? |
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| What refer to the generalizability of the findings to the population from which the data have been taken? |
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| representativeness, aka external validity |
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| Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths are all examples of what? |
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| Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths are all examples of what? |
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| What program type is used for the following: communicable and infectious dz, non-infectious dz, risk factors for chronic dz? |
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| public health surveillance programs |
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| What describes, using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response? |
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| What are used by the us to monitor at the state level behavioral risk factors that are associated w/chronic dz? |
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| behavioral risk factor surveillance system |
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| What is a centralized database for collection of information about a dz? |
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| What is a document used to collect information about a dz? |
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| eh surveillance, epidemiology, and end results program (seer) is an example of what? |
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| the vital statistis system is an example of what? |
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| survey and data collection system |
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