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WEEK 3 POP NURSING 325 (PUBLIC HEALTH) STUDY GUIDEWITH COMPLETE SOLUTION!!
What is the main purpose of epidemiologic surveillance?
Answers :Provides data for making public health decisions
Surveillance is the purposeful and on-going acquisition, interpretation, and
synthesis of data for decision making about interventions conducted in local and
national public health programs.
Which core terms define the distribution of health events observed within a
population?
Answers :Pattern
Pattern is a defining term of epidemiologic distribution. Pattern refers to the
occurrence of health-related events by time, place, and person.
Frequency
Frequency is a defining term of epidemiologic distribution. It refers to the number
of health events and the relationship of that number to the size of the population.
Match the public health functions to their branch of epidemiology.
Answers :Health event surveillance and monitoring Descriptive epidemiology
Investigation of causes and factors contributing to health events Analytic
epidemiology
What is the function of a comparison group in analytic epidemiology?
Answers :Provides baseline data to quantify the association between suspected
causes and effects
Comparison groups provide data to quantify the association between suspected
causes and effects, and test hypotheses about specific determinants as causal agents
of disease.
, Which elements comprise the epidemiological triangle model of disease causality?
Answers :Correct
HostHost is one of the three elements of the epidemiological triangle. Host refers
to the human who can get the disease.
Correct
Agent
Environment
Environment is one of the three elements of the epidemiological triangle.
Environment refers to extrinsic factors that affect the agent and the opportunity for
exposure.
When is the wheel model of disease causation more applicable than the
epidemiological triangle model?
Answers :When analyzing complex chronic conditions with multiple causes
The wheel model of human-environment interaction is more useful for analyzing
complex chronic conditions and identifying factors that are amenable to
intervention because it subscribes to multiple-causation rather than single-
causation disease theory.
Match the rate to its description
Answers :Rate of death Mortality rate
Rate of disease Morbidity rate
Infant death rate Infant mortality rate
Main types of morbidity rates Incidence and prevalences
Which rates are examples of morbidity reporting?
Answers :correct
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