NR503 / NR 503 Final | Population
Health, Epidemiology & Statistical
Principles Exam Review | Complete
Solution Guide | 2024/2025
Population health
- Correct Answer - the health outcomes of a group of individuals,
including the distribution of such outcomes within the group. I.e.
seatbelt laws, no smoking areas, allergy free schools.
Risk reduction
- Correct Answer - the health protection when individuals
participate in behaviors that enable then to react to actual or
potential threats
Assessment
- Correct Answer - the gathering of information abut a patient's
physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual status.
,Outcomes
- Correct Answer - an end result that follows some kind of
healthcare profession, treatment, or intervention and may
describe a patient's condition or health status
Public health policy
- Correct Answer - collected laws, regulations, and approaches
taken to make a decision including a wide range of topics
including health care reform, insurance reform with an eye to
individuals who are not covered by an employer or a group, and
the prevention and control of communicable diseases.
Ethics
- Correct Answer - practices with compassion and respect
committed to patient, family, community, and population
promoting, advocating, and protecting the rights, health, and
safety of the patient.
Fairness
,- Correct Answer - the state, condition, or quality of being fair or
free of bias or injustice
unexposed incidence
- Correct Answer - incidence of new cases of disease in persons
who were not exposed
unexposed incidence equation
- Correct Answer - number unexposed with disease / total
number of unexposed
relative risk
- Correct Answer - risk of disease in one group versus another;
risk of developing disease after exposure; 1 = no risk
relative risk equation
- Correct Answer - # exposed with disease/total of all exposed //
# unexposed with disease/total all unexposed
, odds ratio
- Correct Answer - measure of exposure and disease outcome
commonly used in case control studies
- Correct Answer - number of cases of a disease in a given time
regardless of when it began
prevalence equation
- Correct Answer - (persons with disease / total pop) x1000
primary prevention
- Correct Answer - preventing initial development of disease;
action taken to prevent development of a disease in person who
is well, does not have disease
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