HSA 535 MIDTERM EXAM PART 2

Question 1 

Which of the following is not usually an aim of epidemiology?

  

 

To describe
  the health status of the population

 

 

To fund   new public health programs

 

 

To explain
  the etiology of disease

 

 

To predict
  the occurrence of disease

 

 

To control
  the distribution of disease

Question 2 

Which of the following activities characterizes an epidemiologic approach (as opposed to a clinical approach)?

  

 

Description   of a single individual’s symptoms

 

 

Surveillance   of a population