NR 503-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATE
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NR 503-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATENR 503-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATENR 503-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATEEpidemiology - ANSWER - Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
Risk factors are genetic, ...
NR 503-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% ACCURATE
Epidemiology - ANSWER - 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 - ANSWER - focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
Outcomes - ANSWER - End result that follows an intervention
Aggregate - ANSWER - defined population
Community - ANSWER - Multiple aggregates
Data - ANSWER - Compiled information
Prevalence - ANSWER - Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
Incidence - ANSWER - Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.
, Surveillance - ANSWER - Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
High-risk - ANSWER - An increased chance of poor health outcomes
Morbidity - ANSWER - Presence of illness in a population
Mortality - ANSWER - Tracking deaths in an aggregate
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - ANSWER - Probability that subjects with a positive screening
test truly have the disease
Epidemiological triangle - ANSWER - Triad with an external agent, host, and an environment
that cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
Confounding Variable - ANSWER - Extra variable not accounted for and can ruin the
experiment.
Can introduce bias.
Vital statistics - ANSWER - statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces
Cases - ANSWER - Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or
health event
Social Justice - ANSWER - The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and
social rights and opportunities-including the right to good health
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