The factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease are de-scribed using:
a. descriptive epidemiology.
b. analytic epidemiology.
c. distribution.
d. determinants.
ANS: D
Determinants are the factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease, which may be individual, relational, social, communal, or environmental. Descriptive ep-idemiology seeks to describe the occurrence of a disease in terms of person, place, and time. An-alytic epidemiology focuses on the investigation of causes and associations. Distribution de-scribes who has the disease and where and when the disease occurs.
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