FACULTY OF DENTISTRY

DEPARTMENT OF ORTHODONTICS & PAEDODONTICS

THE ARAB AMERICANUNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF DENTISTRY

Course Name: community

First Assignment –

ID: _________201712392_____________________________

Name: _______Ameer Muwaffaq Mousa_________________

Section: ____________1_______________________________

1- Relationship between prevalence, incidence and duration of

illness is:
A. Prevalence = incidence x duration of illness.
B. Incidence = prevalence x duration of illness.
C. Duration of illness = prevalence x incidence.
D. Incidence = duration of illness/prevalence.
The answer is :…A….
2- Name the indicator which reveals the burden of ill health of the
community ? …morbidity (prevalence)…….

3- Case-control study is a part of : … analytical epidemilogy …

4- Epidemiologist seeks to examine the hypothesis by scientific

methods. this is called :…analytical epidemilogy….

5- Epidemiologist looks at why disease do not occur uniformly, why

variations occur in pattern This aspect is called ……descriptive
epidemilogy… by this it may be possible to doubt the cause and a
theory may be formulated.

Best of Luck
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