1) BRIEFLY define and discuss the definition of disease: (a) Clarify acute and chronic disease classifications according to infectivity and communicability. (b) Summarize the major stages in the disease process. (c) Explain notifiable disease reporting in the United States.
2) Two common measures of association used in analytic studies are odds ratios and risk ratios. BRIEFLY explain each.
3) BRIEFLY explain why descriptive statistics are important to epidemiology.