NUR 412 Epi Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
Definition of epidemiology ✅The study of the distribution & determinants of health-
related states or events, & the application of this study to the control of the diseases &
other health problems
Epidemiology is a discipline that... ✅Describes, quantifies, & postulates causal
mechanisms for disease & health in populations
Develops methods for the control of diseases
Assumption of epidemiology ✅The spread of disease is NOT random
Sanitary statistics, what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅Miasma: poisoning from foul emanations
Analytic approach: clustering of morbidity and mortality
Prevention approach: drainage, sewage, sanitation
Infectious disease epidemiology what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and
prevention approach? ✅germ theory: single agent related to specific disease
Lab isolation nd culture from disease sites and experimental transmission/reproduction
of lesions
Interrupt transmission
Chronic disease what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅exposure related to outcome
Risk ratio of exposure to outcome at individual level in populations
Control risk factors by modifying lifestyle, agent, or environment
Eco epidemiology what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅relations within and between localized structures organized in a hierarchy of levels
Analysis of determinants and outcomes at different levels of organization using new
information systems and biomedical techniques
Apply both information and biomedical technology to find leverage at effacacious levels
Who is the father of epidemiology? ✅John snow
What did John snow focus on? ✅patterns that were causing people to fall ill via asking
questions and data collection
JOHN SNOW'S MAPPING OF CHOLERA DEATHS LED HIM TO IDENTIFY what...?
✅THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM
, How did John snow understand the source of disease? ✅via mapping
Snow's evidence: ✅distribution of disease
Miasma: ✅poisoning from foul emanations
Germ theory: ✅single agent related to specific disease
Exposure related to.... ✅outcome
Analytic approach: miasma ✅clustering of morbidity and mortality
Analytic approach: germ theory ✅laboratory isolation and culture from disease sites
and experimental transmission/reproduction of lesions
Analytic approach: exposure related to outcome ✅risk ratio of exposure to outcome at
individual level in popultions
Analytic approach: relations within and between localized structures organized in a
hierarchy of levels ✅analysis of determinants and outcomes at different levels of
organization using new information systems and biomedical techniques
Prevention approach: sanitary statistics ✅drainage, sewage, sanitation
Prevention approach: infectious disease epidemiology ✅interrupt transmission
(vaccines, isolation, and antibiotics)
Prevention approach: chronic disease epidemiology ✅control risk factors by modifying
lifestyle (diet), agent (guns), or environment (pollution)
Prevention approach: eco-epidemiology ✅apply both information and biomedical
technology to find leverage at efficacious levels
Eco-epidemiology ✅Focus on people's behaviors based on environmental factors
Broaden knowledge and acknowledging the determinants of health into account
PERIE ✅Problem
Etiology
Recommendations
Implementation
Evaluation
Correct Answers
Definition of epidemiology ✅The study of the distribution & determinants of health-
related states or events, & the application of this study to the control of the diseases &
other health problems
Epidemiology is a discipline that... ✅Describes, quantifies, & postulates causal
mechanisms for disease & health in populations
Develops methods for the control of diseases
Assumption of epidemiology ✅The spread of disease is NOT random
Sanitary statistics, what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅Miasma: poisoning from foul emanations
Analytic approach: clustering of morbidity and mortality
Prevention approach: drainage, sewage, sanitation
Infectious disease epidemiology what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and
prevention approach? ✅germ theory: single agent related to specific disease
Lab isolation nd culture from disease sites and experimental transmission/reproduction
of lesions
Interrupt transmission
Chronic disease what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅exposure related to outcome
Risk ratio of exposure to outcome at individual level in populations
Control risk factors by modifying lifestyle, agent, or environment
Eco epidemiology what is the paradigm, analytic approach, and prevention approach?
✅relations within and between localized structures organized in a hierarchy of levels
Analysis of determinants and outcomes at different levels of organization using new
information systems and biomedical techniques
Apply both information and biomedical technology to find leverage at effacacious levels
Who is the father of epidemiology? ✅John snow
What did John snow focus on? ✅patterns that were causing people to fall ill via asking
questions and data collection
JOHN SNOW'S MAPPING OF CHOLERA DEATHS LED HIM TO IDENTIFY what...?
✅THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM
, How did John snow understand the source of disease? ✅via mapping
Snow's evidence: ✅distribution of disease
Miasma: ✅poisoning from foul emanations
Germ theory: ✅single agent related to specific disease
Exposure related to.... ✅outcome
Analytic approach: miasma ✅clustering of morbidity and mortality
Analytic approach: germ theory ✅laboratory isolation and culture from disease sites
and experimental transmission/reproduction of lesions
Analytic approach: exposure related to outcome ✅risk ratio of exposure to outcome at
individual level in popultions
Analytic approach: relations within and between localized structures organized in a
hierarchy of levels ✅analysis of determinants and outcomes at different levels of
organization using new information systems and biomedical techniques
Prevention approach: sanitary statistics ✅drainage, sewage, sanitation
Prevention approach: infectious disease epidemiology ✅interrupt transmission
(vaccines, isolation, and antibiotics)
Prevention approach: chronic disease epidemiology ✅control risk factors by modifying
lifestyle (diet), agent (guns), or environment (pollution)
Prevention approach: eco-epidemiology ✅apply both information and biomedical
technology to find leverage at efficacious levels
Eco-epidemiology ✅Focus on people's behaviors based on environmental factors
Broaden knowledge and acknowledging the determinants of health into account
PERIE ✅Problem
Etiology
Recommendations
Implementation
Evaluation
