NSG 522 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

NSG 522 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS

Question:
What are the 5 W's of epidemiology?
Answer:
what, who, when, where, and why

Question:
The 'what' in the 5 W's of epidemiology refers to:
Answer:
the health-related event such as a disease, condition, injury, or behavior.

Question:
The 'who' in the 5 W's of epidemiology describes:
Answer:
the person or persons that are affected by the health-related event; descriptors often
include age, sex, race/ethnicity, relationship/marital/family status, occupation,
education

Question:
The 'when' in the 5 W's of epidemiology represents:
Answer:
the timing of the health-related event; includes all types of time frames from hours to
decades; aka temporal

Question:
Secular epidemiological trends
Answer:
long-term changes in health-related states or events

Question:
Short-term epidemiological trends
Answer:
Brief, often unexpected increases in health-related states or events

Question:
Cyclic epidemiological trends
Answer:
periodic increases and decreases in the occurrence of health-related states or events

Question:
The 'where' in the 5 W's of epidemiology identifies:
Answer:
the place(s) where the health-related event has occurred; these data often involve
comparisons between or among geographic regions

, Question:
The 'why' or 'how' in the 5 W's of epidemiology explains:
Answer:
the causes or risk factors for the health-related event

Question:
Descriptive epidemiology studies:
Answer:
the DISTRIBUTION of health-related states and events the FREQUENCY and PATTERN of
health-related states and events the WHO (person), WHERE (place), and WHEN (time)

Question:
descriptive epidemiology
Answer:
Describes the extent of a public health problem according to person, place, and time
Communicates public health problem with the use of tables and graphs Identifies who
is at greatest risk for selected health-related states or events Use surveillance methods
to monitor whether unusual health-related states or events exist and evaluate public
health intervention programs Provides clues as to the causes of disease

Question:
Analytic epidemiology studies:
Answer:
the 'why' or 'how' of health-related events

Question:
The purpose of analytic epidemiology is:
Answer:
to identify the cause or risk factors for the health-related state or event of interest

Question:
T/F: Analytic epidemiology studies the causes or risk factors for health-related states or
events
Answer:
true

Question:
Analytic epidemiology is also known as:
Answer:
the 'determinants' of health and health-related events

Question:
The strengths of epidemiological ecological studies include:
Answer: