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NR503-Week 1 EXAM Questions and Answers (2024/2025)(Verified Answers) Epidemiology 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...

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NR503-Week 1 EXAM Questions and Answers
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Epidemiology
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
focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes


Outcomes
End result that follows an intervention


Aggregate
defined population


Community
Multiple aggregates


Data
Compiled information


Prevalence
Existence of a disease.

Number of all cases of the disease


Incidence
Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.


Surveillance
Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.


High-risk
An increased chance of poor health outcomes


Morbidity
Presence of illness in a population


Mortality

, Tracking deaths in an aggregate


Vital statistics
statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces


Cases
Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or health event


Social Justice
The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities-
including the right to good health


Inter-professional collaboration
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
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
Range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status


Risk Analysis
Characterization of the potential adverse health effects of human exposures to environmental
hazards


health disparities
Differences of health statuses between various populations.


Sensitivity
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
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)


Positive Predictive Value (PPV)

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