1.Explain why rates are important to epidemiologists. 2. Explain why one would use an age-adjusted rate 3. Describe the process for reporting notifiable diseases from individuals to the CDC 4. What are the three ways the objectives of the National Health Survey Act of 1956 are being fulfilled? 5. What questions are descriptive studies designed to answer? 6. Describe how epidemiologists might determine where an outbreak occurred. 7. List and describe the two types of analytic studies..