NSG 522 Biostats & Epid- Pt 2, final exam, focus on epidemiology Questions and Answers 2024/2025
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NSG 522
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NSG 522
Acute Communicable diseases
Acute = sudden onset, relatively severe, short duration of s/s.
Communicable = transmitted from person to person / throughout the population; contagious.
Flu, PNA, lyme disease, mumps, measles, cholera
Acute Noncommunicable diseases
Tetanus, legionnaires, an...
NSG 522 Biostats & Epid- Pt 2, final
exam, focus on epidemiology Questions
and Answers 2024/2025
Acute Communicable diseases
Acute = sudden onset, relatively severe, short duration of s/s.
Communicable = transmitted from person to person / throughout the population; contagious.
Flu, PNA, lyme disease, mumps, measles, cholera
Acute Noncommunicable diseases
Tetanus, legionnaires, anthrax
Chronic Communicable diseases
Chronic = less severe but long / continuous duration, lasts for a long time.
Cancer (cervical),leprosy, polio, syphilis, TB
Chronic Noncommunicable diseases
ETOH, CA, DM, heart diseases, paralysistanus
Epidemiological triad
Agent --> Host --> Environment.
Think about where interventions should be directed.
Services, Social, Spiritual - hlth services = risk of unnecessary procedures, medical errors, etc.
Web of causation
depicts the interaction of causative & preventative factors; depicts the complexity or
multicausality of disease
Bradford Hill
~ criteria for determining causation:
Strength of association
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