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NSG 522 Final Exam Questions With Complete SolutionsAbsolute Risk Correct Answers The overall incidence of the
disease in a specified population
Attributable Risk Correct Answers The amount of disease
associated with a causative factor in a specified population
Calculation of Risk Correct Answers The probability that an
event will occur; calculated as a proportion; the same as the
incidence proportion; presented as a probability and can vary
from 0 to 1.0
Case Correct Answers An individual who has the disease,
disorder, injury, health behavior, or health event of interest
Case-controls studies Correct Answers Retrospective study
design;
Studies people who already have the disease and looks
backward at exposure;
Two groups of individuals are studied: a group that has the
disease under study (cases)
and a group that does not have the disease under study (controls
Common source Correct Answers Attributed to a specific;
point sources, intermittent sources, continuous sources
Confirmed Correct Answers All criteria are met
,Cross-sectional studies Correct Answers Prevalence studies; A
population is studied at a single point in time; participants are
asked about their current disease state and their exposures to
certain factors; weakest study design
Crude (All Cause) Mortality Rate Correct Answers the
mortality rate from all causes of death for a population
Describe cocooning. Correct Answers Used to protect infants
from communicable disease; only family and friends who are
fully immunized are allowed to be around the infant
Describe epidemiology as a quantitive science. Correct
Answers Epidemiology is a story about health related states and
events supported with data; measurement is an essential feature.
Describe herd immunity. Correct Answers Viewed as the
resistance a population has to the invasion and spread of an
infectious disease; based on the fact if 85% of the community is
vaccinated the change of major epidemic occurring is reduced
Describe how the natural history of a disease describes the
stages of a disease. Correct Answers 1. Stage of susceptibility
2. Stage of preclinical, subclinical, pre symptomatic, or latent
disease
3. Stage of clinical disease
4. Stage of recovery, disability, or death
Describe indirect transmission. Correct Answers Vehicle borne
(food, water, bedding, instruments) or vector borne (mosquitos,
fleas, and ticks)
, Describe the "Casual Pie" model. Correct Answers Causative
agent or event
Characteristics of the person
Characteristics of the environment
Presence of preventative factors
Action of catalysts or addictive factors
Mediating and moderating factors
Interaction between the factors
Describe the Bradford Hill Criteria for Causation. Correct
Answers Strength of association
Consistency
Specificity
Temporal relationship
Biological gradient
Plausibility
Coherence
Analogy
Experimental evidence
Describe the direct transmission. Correct Answers Direct
contact like kissing, sexual intercourse, and soil contact.
Describe the included activities for primary prevention for
infection. Correct Answers Eliminating or sanitizing the
reservoir, eliminated or covering the portal of exit, covering of
filtering the portal of entry or placing the host in a good health
and immunize when available.
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