George Washington University

MPH 6003

Quiz 2: week 2 and 3

1)The morality rate of all causes among females in New York City (NYC) is:

2. The proportionate mortality for heart disease out of all causes of death for 2018 in NYC is:

3. Given that life expectancy for females is greater than for males. What would be reasonable explanation for the greater number of women compared to men or 75 dying in NYC?

4. If records showed that over the past thirty years the one-year cumulative incidence of disease was steady, but the point prevalence appeared to be increasing, which of the following statements, would be the best explanation?

5. On the first day school, the teachers reported that 8% of the children were feeling nauseated when they arrived at school. This statistic is best described as

6. In a meat processing plant with 1,200 employees in an improvised county, records showed that there were 20 deaths over a one-year period. Analyses showed that in a similarly aged population of the same size in a nearby town, one would have only expected to see 16 deaths. How would one describe mortality at this plant in such a way as to account for the workers’ ages?

7. Which of the following is not an example of an artifactual change in disease rate?