Which of the Following Is an Example of an Epidemiological

question 45

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of an epidemiological transition?

• A) AIDS drugs prolong the lives of sufferers thereby affecting the disease's prevalence rate
• B) a highly contagious disease becomes spreads rapidly, increasing its incidence rate
• C) patterns of disease and mortality change as societies become more developed
• D) all of these

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Definitions:

Sample Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values from a sample, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean of the sample.

Z Value

A Z value is a statistical measure representing the number of standard deviations a data point is from the mean.

Confidence Level

A statistical measure expressed as a percentage that indicates the probability that a given interval contains the true parameter or result.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data, where most observations cluster around the central peak.