Environmental Epidemiology Quiz 1: Part 1

General:

Fill in the blank with the appropriate term.

1. Who is the father of epidemiology? _________________________

a. Hippocrates

b. Sir Percival Potts

c. John Snow

d. Bernardini Ramazzini

2. Epidemiology is about person, __________________, and ____________________.

a. Place, time

b. Vector, etiology

c. Causality, outcome

d. Incidence, prevalence

3. The number of existing cases is called _______________________.

a. Prevalence

b. Incidence

c. Mortality

d. Case Fatality

4. The number of new cases is called __________________________.

a. Prevalence

b. Incidence

c. Mortality

d. Case Fatality