F 23 HEA 520 90 Assignment One

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F 23 HEA 520 90 Assignment One.docx 1 HEA 520 (90): Public Health Epidemiology Fall 2023 Assignment One You will find Assignment One under Quizzes on D2L. Due on D2L by 4.00 PM (ET) on Friday, 9/22/2023. No late submissions. Total Points = 30. Note that your score will be prorated to 5 points for calculation of final grade for the course. For Questions 1 through 5, select the best answer for each question. Note that there is only one best answer for each question. (1 point each; total = 5 points) 1. Use of iodized salt, administration of immunizations and use of condoms are examples of: A. health promotion B. specific protection C. early diagnosis and treatment D. disability limitation E. rehabilitation. 2. PAP smears, mammograms, blood pressure and cholesterol screenings, and prostate specific antigen testing, etc., are examples of: A. primary prevention B. secondary prevention C. tertiary prevention D. none of the above. 3. The prevalence of a disease in a community is influenced by which of the following factors? A. Incidence of the disease B. Death from the disease C. Complete recovery from the disease D. A and B only E. A, B, and C. 4. You are asked to evaluate a STI (Sexually Transmissible Infections) Prevention Education program in the Philadelphia School District. The program has been in operation for five years (January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2022) and data collection had been on-going. You note that the quality of the data is high (i.e., current, reliable and accurate). Choose from the following the best measure that you would choose to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. A. Point prevalence rate of STI in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 B. Period prevalence rate of STI from 2018 through 2022 C. Annual incidence rate of STI during the period 2018 through 2022 D. Incidence rate of STI in 2022. 5. In 2023, you are working with a leading medical facility in Philadelphia and have been asked to find out the need to develop a special ambulatory facility (e.g., an afternoon clinic) to manage hypertension among the catchment population (i.e., community served by the hospital). Which of the following measures would you use to plan the resources needed for the facility? Assume that necessary data are readily available. A. Annual incidence rate of hypertension in the catchment population in the past five years B. Incidence rate of hypertension in the catchment population in 2022 C. Annual cause specific death rate (i.e., death rate from hypertension in the population) in the past five years
F 23 HEA 520 90 Assignment One.docx 2 D. Point prevalence of hypertension on December 31, 2022. Questions 6 through 9: For each of the following four statements, identify the measure (see the list A through E) that best demonstrates the use of the data. All data pertain to Central County, a rural county with a total population of 386,000 in 2022. ( 1 point each; total = 4 points) A. Infant mortality rate B. Cause-specific death rate C. Period prevalence rate D. Crude death rate E. Incidence rate 6. In 2022, 21 deaths occurred in Central County from drowning. 7. In 2022, 12 cases of rabies were reported for the first time. 8. Of the 130 babies born in 2022, 14 died within the first year of life. 9. Twelve percent of the population came down with flu in the years 2021 and 2022 10. Assume 3,465 women, 60-74 years of age, were screened for the presence of osteoporosis at a major women’s health fair held January 3 -10, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. A total of 974 cases were identified. What was the prevalence of osteoporosis in this group? (1 point) 11. From January 1 to March 14, 2022, 112 cases of salmonellosis were reported to health officials in Shelby County, a county with a population of 210,000. An additional 10 cases were reported March 15-30. On March 31, six (6) new cases of salmonellosis were reported. Routine surveillance in the county indicated that four (4) of the above reported cases in Shelby county died due to complications. Based on this information, what was the prevalence of salmonellosis in Shelby County during the first quarter of 2022? (1 point) 12. Health authorities in Creighton County reported that 22 injuries requiring hospitalization occurred in a community of 65,000 during a recent national holiday (July 4 th , 2022). Eight additional cases occurred during the following month, and two of these died from their injuries. What was the prevalence rate of injuries requiring hospitalization on the holiday? (1 point) 13. Based on the data provided in the previous question, what was the prevalence rate of injuries in Creighton County for the entire period as a whole? (1 point) Use the following data to answer questions 14 through 17. (1 point each; total = 4 points) During 2022, in a small city of 1,000,000, there were 10,000 deaths from all causes. The Cancer Surveillance System recorded a total of 3,000 cancer cases in the small city during 2022. Among the diagnosed and reported cancer cases (all types), 2,000 6ere among males and the rest (1,000) among females. It was also noted that among all the cases recorded with the Cancer Surveillance System, 600 died from cancer (with males accounting for 500 of those deaths and female the rest) 14. Crude death (mortality) rate in the city in 2022 was ________________________. 15. The proportionate death (mortality) rate in the city due to all cancers in 2022 was ________________. 16. The case fatality rate for cancer (all types) in the city in 2022 was _____________________________. 17. The cause-specific mortality (death) rate for cancer (all types) in the city in 2022 was _____________. (Did you notice that the numerator for the proportionate mortality rate, the case fatality rate, and the cause- specific mortality rate are the same? The denominators are, of course, different. Reflect on the utility of
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