NUR3737C EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
population - CORRECT ANSWER ; collection of individuals who
have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common
public health - CORRECT ANSWER ; everything between time's
patient was in hospital
benefits entire community, helps prevent things happening to entire
public
encompasses population-focused health
population focused - CORRECT ANSWER ; interventions for specific
group
epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWER ; figuring out what causes
people to have disease, how can we control the health problems
Demographics - CORRECT ANSWER ; characteristics of population
(age, race, gender, religion, income)
,distribution - CORRECT ANSWER ; number of cases and relationship
of number to population & pattern
prevalence - CORRECT ANSWER ; portion of population who has
specific characteristics in given time period
health disparities - CORRECT ANSWER ; preventable differences in
the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve
optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged
populations
exists in all age groups
ethics - CORRECT ANSWER ; includes both a body of knowledge
about moral life & a process of reflection for determining what a persons
out to do or be (how you should treat people)
bioethics - CORRECT ANSWER ; applies to knowledge & processes
of ethics to the examination of ethical problem in health care
consequentialism - CORRECT ANSWER ; decision based on
outcomes of consequences (action that produces least amount of
harm/greatest good)
deontology - CORRECT ANSWER ; action is right or wrong no matter
what good comes from it
egalitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER ; everyone is entitled to equal
rights & care
libertarian - CORRECT ANSWER ; holds right to private property is
most important (market justice)
communitarianism - CORRECT ANSWER ; individual rights need to
be balanced with social responsibilities (virtue, ethics)
morality - CORRECT ANSWER ; shared & generational societal
norms about what is right or wrong
values - CORRECT ANSWER ; what you think & feel as a person
closer to person
autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER ; patient's right to choose or defer
treatment
beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER ; act in patient's best interest
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