SAVAGE Ch3 Epidemiology and Nursing
Practice
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John Snow, considered the founder ANS: A. Residential patter of death
of epidemiology, realized the source Snow developed a frequency distribution of the
of the London's number of human deaths by placing hash marks on
cholera epidemic through: a city street map and realized a cluster of deaths
A. A residential pattern of death occurred near the Broad Street water pump
B. Mapping of the food supply
C. Interviewing the families of the
sick
D. Performing autopsies
, The history and development of ANS: C. Sanitary phase, infectious disease phase,
epidemiology has gone through and risk factor phase
several developmental phases. The The first phase, the sanitary phase, was due to the
public health nursing student learns theory that sanitation needed to be improved to
that these phases came about in aid health. During the next phase, the infectious
history in what order? disease phase, germ theory was developed and
A. Risk factor phase, infectious antibiotics came into production. The third phase,
disease phase, and sanitary phase the risk factor phase, turned to reducing risk for
B. Infectious disease phase, risk disease and prevention.
factor phase, and sanitary phase
C. Sanitary phase, infectious disease
phase, and risk factor phase
D. Agent phase, host phase, and
environment phase
A public health nurse (PHN) is asked ANS: D. The web of causation
by the hospital administration to find The web of causation is a framework that
out why there are so many pediatric demonstrates the complexity of the multiple
asthma patients coming to the ER for factors of illness, injury, and disease, which are
treatment and to develop a plan to determined by multiple causes.
reduce admissions
by 10%. The nurse needs to untangle
the multiple risk factors involved in
order to determine what type of
intervention should be developed,
so he or she uses:
A. Descriptive data analysis
B. The ecological model
C. Demography
D. The web of causation
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John Snow, considered the founder ANS: A. Residential patter of death
of epidemiology, realized the source Snow developed a frequency distribution of the
of the London's number of human deaths by placing hash marks on
cholera epidemic through: a city street map and realized a cluster of deaths
A. A residential pattern of death occurred near the Broad Street water pump
B. Mapping of the food supply
C. Interviewing the families of the
sick
D. Performing autopsies
, The history and development of ANS: C. Sanitary phase, infectious disease phase,
epidemiology has gone through and risk factor phase
several developmental phases. The The first phase, the sanitary phase, was due to the
public health nursing student learns theory that sanitation needed to be improved to
that these phases came about in aid health. During the next phase, the infectious
history in what order? disease phase, germ theory was developed and
A. Risk factor phase, infectious antibiotics came into production. The third phase,
disease phase, and sanitary phase the risk factor phase, turned to reducing risk for
B. Infectious disease phase, risk disease and prevention.
factor phase, and sanitary phase
C. Sanitary phase, infectious disease
phase, and risk factor phase
D. Agent phase, host phase, and
environment phase
A public health nurse (PHN) is asked ANS: D. The web of causation
by the hospital administration to find The web of causation is a framework that
out why there are so many pediatric demonstrates the complexity of the multiple
asthma patients coming to the ER for factors of illness, injury, and disease, which are
treatment and to develop a plan to determined by multiple causes.
reduce admissions
by 10%. The nurse needs to untangle
the multiple risk factors involved in
order to determine what type of
intervention should be developed,
so he or she uses:
A. Descriptive data analysis
B. The ecological model
C. Demography
D. The web of causation
