Question: Indicate whether each statement is true or false. If it is false, correct the statement to be true.

1. The prevalence of a disease has no impact on the positive predictive value of a screening test.
2. Using statistical distributions to arbitrarily categorize health data is acceptable when no other alternatives exist, such as evidence-based thresholds.
3. A highly sensitive screening/diagnostic test will result in identifying more true cases of the disease it is testing for than a test with low sensitivity.
4. The statement, "heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with an age-adjusted death rate of 169.8 per 100,000 population in 2013" is an example of a relative measure of disease risk.
5. A risk factor is a modifiable characteristic of an individual that causes disease.
6. Hill’s consideration for causation known as temporality means that the exposure has a dose-response relationship with the disease.
7. Community health needs assessments consist of the following steps: developing a shared vision, determining what your organization wants to learn about the community, determining the target population, collecting data, selecting priorities, documenting and communicating results, and implementing an improvement plan.
8. An odds ratio will always be the same as a relative risk.

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