Environmental Epidemiology Assessment

1) Define
the following terms: (15 points)

a) Environmental
epidemiology:

b) Natural
experiment:

c) Descriptive
epidemiology:

d) Odds
ratio:

e) Relative
risk:

2) Explain
the work of John Snow using the methodology of the natural experiment. (10
points)

3)
List the reasons why epidemiology is important to
research studies of environmental health. What are some of the important
limitations of the epidemiologic approach with respect to the study of
environmental health problems? (15 points)

4)
Explain how ecologic analysis is used to study the
health effects of air pollution. Provide
examples of uncontrolled factors that may affect ecologic study results. (15
points)

5)
Describe the importance of the contributions of Sir
Percival Pott to environmental health, particularly in the field of cancer
prevention. (10 points)

6)
Describe Hill’s criteria for disease causality. (10
points)

7)
Explain the epidemiologic triangle and how it can be
applied to environmental health. (10 points)

8)
Explain the difference between descriptive and analytic
epidemiology. Provide examples of how both types of study design are utilized
in the field of environmental health. (15 points)

To calculate score, take _____total/ 100 x 10