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Nurs 6324 Midterm Exam- Module 1 questions with answers
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Public Health - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community Assurance, Assessment, Policy Development - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ 3 core functions of public health Population Health - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems Descriptive Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Describes the patterns of health status in populations by person, place, and time. Analytical Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The "why" of disease occurrence in populations in the community to determine the probability of disease occurrence.
Biostatistics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The science of collecting and analyzing data arising from biological phenomena Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Father of medicine; suggested that environmental and host factors might influence the development of disease John Graunt - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ London haberdasher who was the first to quantify patterns of birth, death, and disease occurrence, noting disparities. William Farr - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Father of modern vital statistics; collected and analyzed's Britain's mortality statistics John Snow - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Father of Epidemiology; Mapped the occurrence of cholera in London Shoe Leather Epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Practice of working in the field to conduct research; Snow practiced this type of research when he asked around the community about the deaths associated with the water pump Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Developed a vaccine for smallpox after finding dairy maids with mild cowpox were immune to smallpox
Portal of Entry - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ The manner in which a pathogen enters a susceptible host Primary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Prevents disease in a person who is well and does not have the disease (vaccines). Secondary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Identifying people whom disease process has begun but do not have clinical signs of disease; screenings Tertiary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Prevents complications in persons who have developed a disease; (Ex. rehabilitation). Quaternary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Identifying a person at risk for over medicalization to protect them from invasive medical interventions and provide care procedures which are ethically acceptable Population-Based Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Preventive approach that is applied to an entire population, strives for small absolute changes among many persons, and must be relatively inexpensive and non- invasive. High-Risk Approach - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Preventative approach that focuses on those with the highest probability of developing disease and aims to bring their risk close to the levels experienced by the rest of the population; greater cost and typically more invasive
Endemic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Habitual or expected presence of a disease in a geographic area Epidemic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ An occurrence of a disease in a geographic location that is in excess of the expected or endemic level Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Worldwide Epidemic Herd Immunity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ Resistance of the population to and attack of a disease usually through vaccination.