NR503 Epidemiology Final, NR 503
Epi Final, NR 503 Epi Midterm-
Questions with COMPLETE
Solutions
Common risk factors - answerunhealthy diet, physical inactivity,
tobacco use
Childhood risk - answerconditions before birth and early in
childhood influence health in adult life.
Risk accumulation - answerAgeing is an important marker of the
accumulation of modifiable risks for chronic disease
Underlying determinants - answera reflection of the major forces
driving social, economic, and cultural change. I.e. globalization,
urbanization, population ageing, and general policy environment
Poverty - answerinterconnected with chronic disease in a vicious
circle increasing exposure to risks and decreased access to
health services
Primary prevention - answeraims to prevent disease. I.e. banning
hazardous products, educating on healthy/safe habits,
immunizations
Secondary prevention - answerreduce impact of disease or injury
that has already occurred. I.e. screening tests, low-dose ASA,
suitably modified work
,Tertiary prevention - answeraims to soften impact of ongoing
illness. I.e. cardiac or stroke rehab, support groups, vocational
rehab
Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) - answermaterials
to improve cultural competency among health providers to provide
healthcare interventions and other cultural variants
Marginalization - answerMajor cause of vulnerability referring to
exposure to a range of possible harms
Variables at risk for marginalization - answerhigh risk health
literacy, cultural barriers, low english proficiency
Cultural competence - answera dynamic, fluid, continuous
process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find
meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based on
knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior
of those whom they render care
Norms & values - answersoecific practices that guide the actions
and decisions of each person in a group based on their culture.
Can be learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model - answerA set of questions that the
APN can use in order to assess the culture of a patient.
Socioeconomic status - answerA measure that takes into account
three interrelated dimensions: a person's income level, education
level, and typ of occupation.
Disparities - answera higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or
mortality experiences by one grup relative to another
, Minorities - answera group of people who because of their
physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the other
in society
Food desert - answerneighborhoods and communities that have
limited access to affordable and nutritious foods
Social determinants of health - answerpoverty, education level,
raciam, income, and poor housisng that effect access to
healthcare
Social justice theory - answerthe goal that all people will have
equal opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare
will be the same
Data sources utilized to access determinants of health -
answerHealthy People 2020, US Census, US Department of
Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health and Health
Disparities
Accommodation - answerTo create an environment that
accomodates health practice and ritual from other cultures within
a plan of care
Acculturation - answerdegree to which an individual from one
culture has given up the traits of that culture and adopted the
traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
Assimilation - answerthe social, economic, and political
integration of a cultural group into mainstream society to which it
may have emigrated
Genetics - answerplace patients at higher risk for certain disease
and if family history reveals this a screening tool could be used to
determine the likelihood of a person developing the disease
Epi Final, NR 503 Epi Midterm-
Questions with COMPLETE
Solutions
Common risk factors - answerunhealthy diet, physical inactivity,
tobacco use
Childhood risk - answerconditions before birth and early in
childhood influence health in adult life.
Risk accumulation - answerAgeing is an important marker of the
accumulation of modifiable risks for chronic disease
Underlying determinants - answera reflection of the major forces
driving social, economic, and cultural change. I.e. globalization,
urbanization, population ageing, and general policy environment
Poverty - answerinterconnected with chronic disease in a vicious
circle increasing exposure to risks and decreased access to
health services
Primary prevention - answeraims to prevent disease. I.e. banning
hazardous products, educating on healthy/safe habits,
immunizations
Secondary prevention - answerreduce impact of disease or injury
that has already occurred. I.e. screening tests, low-dose ASA,
suitably modified work
,Tertiary prevention - answeraims to soften impact of ongoing
illness. I.e. cardiac or stroke rehab, support groups, vocational
rehab
Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) - answermaterials
to improve cultural competency among health providers to provide
healthcare interventions and other cultural variants
Marginalization - answerMajor cause of vulnerability referring to
exposure to a range of possible harms
Variables at risk for marginalization - answerhigh risk health
literacy, cultural barriers, low english proficiency
Cultural competence - answera dynamic, fluid, continuous
process whereby an individual, system or health care agency find
meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based on
knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior
of those whom they render care
Norms & values - answersoecific practices that guide the actions
and decisions of each person in a group based on their culture.
Can be learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model - answerA set of questions that the
APN can use in order to assess the culture of a patient.
Socioeconomic status - answerA measure that takes into account
three interrelated dimensions: a person's income level, education
level, and typ of occupation.
Disparities - answera higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or
mortality experiences by one grup relative to another
, Minorities - answera group of people who because of their
physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the other
in society
Food desert - answerneighborhoods and communities that have
limited access to affordable and nutritious foods
Social determinants of health - answerpoverty, education level,
raciam, income, and poor housisng that effect access to
healthcare
Social justice theory - answerthe goal that all people will have
equal opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare
will be the same
Data sources utilized to access determinants of health -
answerHealthy People 2020, US Census, US Department of
Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health and Health
Disparities
Accommodation - answerTo create an environment that
accomodates health practice and ritual from other cultures within
a plan of care
Acculturation - answerdegree to which an individual from one
culture has given up the traits of that culture and adopted the
traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
Assimilation - answerthe social, economic, and political
integration of a cultural group into mainstream society to which it
may have emigrated
Genetics - answerplace patients at higher risk for certain disease
and if family history reveals this a screening tool could be used to
determine the likelihood of a person developing the disease
