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NUR 316 EXAM 4 PRACTICE QUESTIONS (EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECONOMICS)
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NUR 316 EXAM 4 PRACTICE QUESTIONS(EPIDEMIOLOGY & ECONOMICS)
d - Precise Answer ✔✔The factors, exposures, characteristics, and
behaviors that determine patterns of disease are described using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants
d - Precise Answer ✔✔To understand the causes of health and disease,
epidemiology studies:
a. Individuals
b. Families
c. Groups
d. Populations
a - Precise Answer ✔✔When a nurse examines birth and death
certificates during an epidemiologic investigation, what data category is
being used?
a. Routinely collected data
b. Data collected for other purposes but useful for epidemiologic
research
c. Original data collected for specific epidemiologic studies
,d. Surveillance data
b - Precise Answer ✔✔An epidemiologist wanting to know what caused
severe diarrhea and vomiting in several people at a local banquet would
be using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants
b - Precise Answer ✔✔Which is an example of an epidemic?
a. "Bird" flu in China
b. Adult obesity in the United States
c. An isolated case of smallpox in Africa
d. The nursing shortage in the United States
a - Precise Answer ✔✔John Snow is called the "father of epidemiology"
because of his work with:
a. Cholera
b. Malaria
c. Polio
d. Germ theory
, d - Precise Answer ✔✔The interaction between an agent, a host, and the
environment is called:
a. Natural history of disease
b. Risk
c. Web of causality
d. The epidemiologic triangle
c - Precise Answer ✔✔Public health professionals refer to three levels
of prevention as tied to specific stages in the:
a. Epidemiologic triangle
b. Web of causation
c. Natural history of disease
d. Surveillance process
b - Precise Answer ✔✔Which is an example of an agent in the
epidemiologic triangle?
a. Human population distribution
b. Salmonella
c. Genetic susceptibility
d. Climate
c - Precise Answer ✔✔When studying chronic disease, the
multifactorial etiology of illness is considered. What does this imply?
a. Genetics and molecular structure of disease is paramount.
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