Most studies allow individuals to self-identify for purposes of race and ethnicity

A public health advisory committee wanted to determine whether or not a tuberculosis clinic was needed in a community in Los Angeles County. The total number of people living in the community on June 1, 2020 was 37,450.  County records showed that 10,223 individuals living in that community had been diagnosed with tuberculosis in the last year. The latest community wide testing results from June 1st identified an additional 1,114 new cases.  Calculate the incidence rate for this community

Which of these would be used to measure cases of food poisoning that occurred at a church potluck?

The registration of birth and death is regulated by federal law.

The index patient in the West African Ebola outbreak was a(n)

Infectious disease rates are increasing due to decreases in vaccination and new infectious diseases.

Which of these stages of the natural history of disease comes first

The term “determinants” in epidemiology generally includes the following, except

Susan is doing a study to determine how many women between the ages of 25 and 44 years of age get an annual pap smear which she plans to generalize to her state. She is randomly sampling a state data set from a large national HMO. There are 500 subjects in her sample.  When she reviews the data set for each subject, she discovers that the age is missing in almost 30% of the study subjects.  Her sample size calculations show that she must have a minimum of 450 study subjects for the level of significance she wants to achieve. What should she do?

The first cases of SARS CoV2 infection were detected in China in