M3: Check Your Understanding!

Question 1

Use data in the following table for the questions below.

In terms of person, place or time, how is stomach cancer described (check all that apply):

Group of answer choices

Time

Person

Place

Question 2

What can you infer from this table about stomach cancer?

Here is the table again:

Question 3

In the following table, the N reflects the total population within that category (i.e. there were 173 adult men with a high socio-economic status).

 In terms of age, what can you infer from this table?

Group of answer choices

The percent of children who died was higher than the percent of both adult men and adult women who died.

The percent of children who died was higher than the percent of adult men who died, but not higher than the percent of adult women who died.

There were more deaths among children than adults.

Question 4

In terms of socio-economic status, what can you infer from this table (same table as previous question)?

Group of answer choices

Deaths are higher among persons of a high socio-economic status, regardless of age.

Deaths are higher among persons of a low socio-economic status, regardless of age.

Deaths are higher among persons of a low socio-economic status, among children only.

Question 5

Although the disease is unknown, which group of individuals would you want to examine further due to concerns over a high percentage of deaths? (write a short answer)

Question 6

The figure below shows esophageal cancer over time.  Year of diagnosis is on the x-axis, and the rate of cancer is on the y-axis.  Rates over time are presented broken down by race and sex.

What trends do you observe in esophageal cancer over time? 

Group of answer choices

There are no striking concerns; esophageal cancer is declining among all racial/ethnic groups.

The trend among white males might warrant further study.

Esophageal cancer is declining rapidly among African American males; no further studies are needed