N471 Exam 1, N471 Exam #1 Public
Health Exam Questions and Answers
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prevention - ✔✔What is public health considered?
immunizations, education - ✔✔What are considered primary preventions?
screenings - ✔✔This is considered a secondary prevention.
tertiary prevention - ✔✔This is the actual treatment of a disease (medication or surgery)
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔This nurse was the queen of infection interventions and once
said that "it is cheaper to promote health than to maintain people in sickness."
behavior, genes, social, access to healthcare, environmental exposure, education -
✔✔Name some social determinants of health
limit disease injury and death via interventions - ✔✔What is the goal of epidemiology?
understand the source of illness, who is exposed, prevent additional cases - ✔✔What is
the job of an epidemiologist?
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, incidence - ✔✔A new condition or event
pandemic - ✔✔An epidemic that spreads to larger populations beyond several
countries or continents.
antibiotic resistance - ✔✔What does the CDC believe is the next pandemic?
compares why one group has a disease and another does not - ✔✔What does analytic
epidemiology do?
agent, host, environment - ✔✔What 3 components make up the epidemiological triad?
virus, bacteria, parasite - ✔✔What are considered agent factors for an epidemiological
triad?
the impact of the social environment on health outcomes - ✔✔What does social
epidemiology measure?
confidentiality - ✔✔What is the biggest problem with EMR's?
information - ✔✔Data that are interpreted, organized, structured
knowledge - ✔✔Information synthesized so that relationships identified and are
identified and formalized
wisdom - ✔✔Appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems
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Health Exam Questions and Answers
100% Pass
prevention - ✔✔What is public health considered?
immunizations, education - ✔✔What are considered primary preventions?
screenings - ✔✔This is considered a secondary prevention.
tertiary prevention - ✔✔This is the actual treatment of a disease (medication or surgery)
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔This nurse was the queen of infection interventions and once
said that "it is cheaper to promote health than to maintain people in sickness."
behavior, genes, social, access to healthcare, environmental exposure, education -
✔✔Name some social determinants of health
limit disease injury and death via interventions - ✔✔What is the goal of epidemiology?
understand the source of illness, who is exposed, prevent additional cases - ✔✔What is
the job of an epidemiologist?
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, incidence - ✔✔A new condition or event
pandemic - ✔✔An epidemic that spreads to larger populations beyond several
countries or continents.
antibiotic resistance - ✔✔What does the CDC believe is the next pandemic?
compares why one group has a disease and another does not - ✔✔What does analytic
epidemiology do?
agent, host, environment - ✔✔What 3 components make up the epidemiological triad?
virus, bacteria, parasite - ✔✔What are considered agent factors for an epidemiological
triad?
the impact of the social environment on health outcomes - ✔✔What does social
epidemiology measure?
confidentiality - ✔✔What is the biggest problem with EMR's?
information - ✔✔Data that are interpreted, organized, structured
knowledge - ✔✔Information synthesized so that relationships identified and are
identified and formalized
wisdom - ✔✔Appropriate use of knowledge to manage and solve human problems
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