Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology

Give 5 advantages of epidemiology compared to study of disease in the individual

How is disease defined in clinical medicine?

Why is sub-clinical disease important?

Give an example of the importance of sub-clinical disease

Give 2 reasons why sub-clinical disease can be problematic

What is the only way to recognise sub-clinical disease?

Define epidemiology

Define epizootiology

Define endemic

Define epidemic

Give an example of a long-term epidemic

Give an example of a short-term epidemic

Define outbreak

Define pandemic

Give 2 examples of diseases that often occur as pandemics

Why do a number of influenza pandemics originate in South East Asia?

Give 5 practical uses of epidemiology

Why is epidemiology useful in establishing the cause of a disease?

Give an example of where acquisition of information about the ecology of a disease is useful?

Define cause

When is a factor determined to be causal?

What is the term for the factors that cause a disease when they are combined?

Give an example of a multifactorial disease

Define association

Give the classifications of associations

Define risk factor

What is a necessary cause?