NUR 442 - Ch 5 Review Questions and Correct Answers
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Define epidemiology study of distribution and determinants of health and disease in human populations
What is the principal science of public health? Epidemiology
Discuss the factors of the person-place-time model -Person (who; demographics, disease status) -Place (where; geo locations, climate, ...
NUR 442 - Ch 5 Review Questions and
Correct Answers
Define epidemiology ✅study of distribution and determinants of health and disease in
human populations
What is the principal science of public health? ✅Epidemiology
Discuss the factors of the person-place-time model ✅-Person (who; demographics,
disease status)
-Place (where; geo locations, climate, politics)
-Time (when)
What is descriptive epidemiology? ✅-Study of the amount and distribution of disease
-Used by public health professionals
-Identified patterns frequently indicate possible causes of disease
Which type of epidemiology is used by public health professionals? ✅Descriptive
What is analytic epidemiology? ✅-Examines complex rship among the many
determinants of disease
-Investigates cause of disease
What are the three factors of the epidemiological triangle? ✅-Host
-Agent
-Environment
Discuss the agents of disease within the epidemiological triangle (4) ✅-Nutrition
(excess/deficiency)
-Chemical (poisons/allergens)
-Physical (ionizing, mechanical)
-Infectious (metazoa, protozoa, bacteria, fungi, rickettsia, viruses)
Discuss the host factors within the epidemiological triangle (8) ✅-Genetics
-Age
-Sex
-Ethnic group
-Physiological state
-Prior immunological experience
-Intercurrent or preexisting disease
-Human behavior
What are the intrinsic factors within the epidemiological triangle? ✅Host factors
, What are the extrinsic factors within the epidemiological triangle? ✅Environmental
factors
Discuss environmental factors within the epidemiological triangle (3) ✅Influence
existence of the agent, exposure, or susceptibility to the agent
-Physical
-Biological (human populations, flora, fauna)
-Socioeconomic (occupation, urbanization)
Discuss the elements of the wheel model of human-environment interaction ✅-Genetic
core in the center
-Human host in the middle
-Surrounded by social, biological, and physical environment in the outer layer
What type of causation does the wheel model subscribe to? ✅multiple-causation
What has the focus of public health shifted to after the decline in widespread epidemics
because of public health interventions and the discovery of causative agents?
✅Chronic diseases
What is the web of causation? ✅Huge model that illustrates the complexity of
relationships among casual variables for heart disease
Discuss ecosocial epidemiology approach ✅-Emphasize role of evolving macro-level
socioenvironmental factors along with microbiological process in understanding health
and illness
-Challenges the more individually focused Risk factor approach
Define a rate ✅arithmetic expressions that help practitioners consider a count of an
event relative to the size of the population from which it is extracted
Rate calculation ✅Rate = (x / y) x k
x is # of health events in a specified period
y is population in same area in same period
k is a constant
What is an incidence rate? ✅Morbidity rate showing new cases of a disease or
conditions in a community relative to the population at risk during the same time period
What is an attack rate? ✅Morbidity rate showing the number of new cases in those
exposed to a disease
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