NR 503 MIDTERM EXAM 80+
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2023/2024 GRADED A+.
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,1. Epidemiology refers to the Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct action by the individual.
Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening, treatment, prevention, and
monitoring.
2. population health: focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
3. Outcomes: End result that follows an intervention
4. Aggregate: defined population
5. Community: Multiple aggregates
6. Data: Compiled information
7. Prevalence: Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
8. Incidence: Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.
9. Surveillance: Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
10. High-risk: An increased chance of poor health outcomes
11. Morbidity: Presence of illness in a population
12. Mortality: Tracking deaths in an aggregate
13. Vital statistics: statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces
14. Cases: Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or health event
15. Social Justice: The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and
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, opportunities-including the right to good health
16. Inter-professional collaboration: Collaborative action oriented toward a com- mon goal of
improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation, assertiveness, mutual
respect, and autonomy.
17. HP2020: 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS 2023/2024 GRADED A+.
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,1. Epidemiology refers to the Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct action by the individual.
Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening, treatment, prevention, and
monitoring.
2. population health: focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
3. Outcomes: End result that follows an intervention
4. Aggregate: defined population
5. Community: Multiple aggregates
6. Data: Compiled information
7. Prevalence: Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
8. Incidence: Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.
9. Surveillance: Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
10. High-risk: An increased chance of poor health outcomes
11. Morbidity: Presence of illness in a population
12. Mortality: Tracking deaths in an aggregate
13. Vital statistics: statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces
14. Cases: Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or health event
15. Social Justice: The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and
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, opportunities-including the right to good health
16. Inter-professional collaboration: Collaborative action oriented toward a com- mon goal of
improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation, assertiveness, mutual
respect, and autonomy.
17. HP2020: 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
2) achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, improve health of all groups
3) create social and physical environments that promote good health.
4) promote quality of life, healthy development, and health
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