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NR 503 MIDTERM EXAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
NR 503 MIDTERM EXAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NR 503 MIDTERM EXAM: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSEpidemiology Correct Ans - Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct
action by the individual.
Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening,
treatment, prevention, and monitoring.
population health Correct Ans - focuses on risk, data, demographics,
and outcomes
Outcomes Correct Ans - End result that follows an intervention
Aggregate Correct Ans - defined population
Community Correct Ans - Multiple aggregates
Data Correct Ans - Compiled information
Prevalence Correct Ans - Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
Incidence Correct Ans - Measures appearance of a disease over a
period of time.
Surveillance Correct Ans - Collection, analysis, and dissemination of
data.
High-risk Correct Ans - An increased chance of poor health outcomes
Morbidity Correct Ans - Presence of illness in a population
Mortality Correct Ans - Tracking deaths in an aggregate
, Vital statistics Correct Ans - statistics on live births, deaths, fetal
deaths, marriages and divorces
Cases Correct Ans - Criterion used to make decisions whether the
patient has a disease or health event
Social Justice Correct Ans - The view that everyone deserves equal
economic, political and social rights and opportunities-including the right to
good health
Inter-professional collaboration Correct Ans - Collaborative action
oriented toward a common goal of improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication,
cooperation, assertiveness, mutual respect, and autonomy.
HP2020 Correct Ans - 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
Determinants of Care Correct Ans - Range of personal, social,
economic, and environmental factors that influence health status
Risk Analysis Correct Ans - Characterization of the potential adverse
health effects of human exposures to environmental hazards
health disparities Correct Ans - Differences of health statuses between
various populations.
Sensitivity Correct Ans - Measures the proportion of actual positives
that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of sick people who are correctly
identified as having the condition)
Specificity Correct Ans - True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of
healthy people who are correctly ID's as not having the condition)
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