Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct answers 2024.
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Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct answers 2024.
Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct answers 2024.
Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct answers 2024.
Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct
answers 2024
1. How is validity measured?: sensitivity and specificity
2. Validity: The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
3. reliability: the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed
by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of
the test, or on retesting
4. Specificity: The ability of the test to identify correctly those who do not
have the disease.
5. sensitivity: The ability of a test to identify correctly those who have the
disease.
6. measures of morbidity: incidence and prevalence
7. measures of frequency: incidence, prevalence and mortality
8. What do measures of frequency do?: used to characterize the occurrence of
health events in a population
9. Prevelance: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or
condi- tion present in a population at a given time.
10.incidence: The number or rate of new cases of a particular condition
during a specific time.
11.epidemic: the occurrence of more cases of disease injury or other health
conditions than expected in a given area, or among a specific group of
,Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct
answers 2024
persons during a particular period. Usually the cases are presumed to have a
common cause or to be related to 1 another in some way
12.endemic: the constant presence of an agent or health condition within a
given geographic area or population
13. One of the primary focuses of improving the health of the American people
in the twenty-first century is to address:
a. Bioterrorism and global health threats
b. Delivery of individual care and hygiene
c. The need for increased hospital and acute care
d. Chronic disease and disability management: A
14. The threat of bioterrorism has the potential to:
a. Dissolve community-based programs.
b. Cause the health care system to collapse.
c. Divert funds from other public safety health care programs.
d. Increase the need for shelters.: C
15. Population-based preventive programs launched in the 1970s are
responsible for increased:
a. Use of tobacco
b. Use of automobile safety restraints
,Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct
answers 2024
c. Incidence of hypertension
d. Incidence of obesity: B
, Epidemiological Methods - mid term questions with correct
answers 2024
16. The public health nurse must participate in the essential services of
public health. These include:
a. Monitoring health status by completing a community assessment
b. Diagnosing and investigating health problems in the world
c. Informing, educating, and empowering people about health issues
d. Working in law enforcement to regulate health and ensure safety: C
17. Which of the following is an example of the mission of public health
according to the Institute of Medicine?
a. Tracking avian flu outbreaks and doing surveillance in the United States
b. Providing a flu shot for an elderly person at the health department
c. Keeping track of alternative therapies in use in the United States
d. Keeping snake antivenom at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta: A
18. Making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available
defines which of the core public health functions?
a. Policy development
b. Assessment
c. Assurance
d. Scientific knowledge-based care: C
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