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NU411 Exam 1 Study Guide With Solution

NU411--Exam 1 Study Guide Solutions theory of greater good - Ans:-practice in public health nursing that pertains to doing the most good for the highest number of individuals in a population John Snow - Ans:-father of epidemiology; studied the London Cholera epidemic and determined its source to be a contaminated well National Public Health Performance Standards - Ans:-set of guidelines that emphasize importance of demonstrating improved health outcomes fro populations, evaluating efficacy...

NU411 Foodborne Illnesses Exam Study Guide t/f almost 1 in 10 people get sick with a foodborne illness annually - Ans:-true outbreak - Ans:-A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease; must be 2 or more people in an area that do not live in the same household surveillance - Ans:-a continual dynamic method for gathering data about the health of the general public for the purpose of primary prevention of illness passive surveillance - Ans:-more common form of surveillance used by most local...

NU411 Infectious Global Diseases Exam Study Guide NTD - Ans:-neglected tropical diseases hanson's disease/mycobacterium leprae route and reservoirs - Ans:-droplet; humans and amradillos leprosy action - Ans:-bacteria 'hijack' liver in body of armadillo, reversing cell damage to 'reprogram' the organ to younger times, increasing the tissue it can infect polio incubation period - Ans:-7-35 days (average of 7-14) t/f for every 200 infections, only 1 results in symptomatic poli...