Questions Cph Exam Questions And Answers.

Continuing source outbreak {Ans: group of people are exposed to single noxious influence but the exposure continues over a longer period of time. Ex. contaminated water supply. Relatively abrupt beginning of outbreak; cases don't typically arise beyond one}utilization of medical resources {Ans: influenced by unmet demand; both demand and need tend to be greater than utilizatio}Complete care {Ans: includes health promotion, disease prevention, early detection, appropriate diagnostic and treatment measures, follow up care and rehab. Only one of 10 basic requirements to include public health}Case fatality {Ans: proportion of deaths within a designated population of "cases"; # of deaths/ #of diagnosed within time period}Process measure evaluation {Ans: provides feedback on how well you are performing a process designed to impact the outcome}Rate data such as the number of events occurring in a specified period of time are often described by which probability distribution? {Ans: The Poisson distribution is often used to describe count data and can be used to describe rate data by including an offset term for the denominator of the rate.}