NR503 Midterm Exam Questions with Verified Answers (Correct
Update)
Question 1: vital statistics
Answer: The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning birth, marriage, divorce,
sickness, and death.
Question 2: Morbidity
Answer: presence of illness in population
Question 3: mortality
Answer: related to tracking of deaths in a population
Question 4: cases
Answer: people afflicted (those who are sick)
Question 5: social justice
Answer: justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
Question 6: Epidemiology
Answer: the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of
diseases and other factors relating to health.
Question 7: Population Health
Answer: health outcomes of a group of people, and the distribution of those outcomes within the group
Question 8: Incidence
Answer: number of new cases
Question 9: Prevalence
Answer: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at
a within a specific time frame
Question 10: Outcomes
Answer: End result that follows an intervention
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, Question 11: Inter-professional collaboration
Answer: Health professionals work together in small groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR,
end of life or primary care.
Question 12: Healthy People 2020
Answer: A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the
second decade of the new millennium.
Question 13: Determinants of health
Answer: Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or individual. Determinants of
health help to explain or predict trends in health and why some groups have better or worse health than
others.
Question 14: Campaign for Acmobilizes tion
Answer: nurses, health providers, consumers to strengthen nursing through policy changes. Goal based
on IOM future of nursing report.
Question 15: primary intervenprocess tion
Answer: of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to prevent disease prior to the person getting it,
ex: immunizations, tobacco prevention initiatives
Question 16: secondary intervention
Answer: early detection of disease or risk factors and intervention during an asymptomatic phase, ex:
pap smear, rapid HIV, annual cholesterol test
Question 17: tertiary intervention
Answer: an intervention that occurs after the initial occurrence of symptoms but before irreversible
disability occurs, ex: cardiac rehab programs
Question 18: aggregate
Answer: defined population
Question 19: community
Answer: composed of multiple aggregates
Question 20: high risk populations
Answer: Certain groups of people who have a higher risk of getting an illness than others
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Question 1: vital statistics
Answer: The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning birth, marriage, divorce,
sickness, and death.
Question 2: Morbidity
Answer: presence of illness in population
Question 3: mortality
Answer: related to tracking of deaths in a population
Question 4: cases
Answer: people afflicted (those who are sick)
Question 5: social justice
Answer: justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
Question 6: Epidemiology
Answer: the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of
diseases and other factors relating to health.
Question 7: Population Health
Answer: health outcomes of a group of people, and the distribution of those outcomes within the group
Question 8: Incidence
Answer: number of new cases
Question 9: Prevalence
Answer: The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a population at
a within a specific time frame
Question 10: Outcomes
Answer: End result that follows an intervention
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, Question 11: Inter-professional collaboration
Answer: Health professionals work together in small groups providing care. Examples: oncology, OR,
end of life or primary care.
Question 12: Healthy People 2020
Answer: A set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for Americans to meet during the
second decade of the new millennium.
Question 13: Determinants of health
Answer: Factors that raise or lower a level of health in a population or individual. Determinants of
health help to explain or predict trends in health and why some groups have better or worse health than
others.
Question 14: Campaign for Acmobilizes tion
Answer: nurses, health providers, consumers to strengthen nursing through policy changes. Goal based
on IOM future of nursing report.
Question 15: primary intervenprocess tion
Answer: of altering susceptibility or reducing exposure to prevent disease prior to the person getting it,
ex: immunizations, tobacco prevention initiatives
Question 16: secondary intervention
Answer: early detection of disease or risk factors and intervention during an asymptomatic phase, ex:
pap smear, rapid HIV, annual cholesterol test
Question 17: tertiary intervention
Answer: an intervention that occurs after the initial occurrence of symptoms but before irreversible
disability occurs, ex: cardiac rehab programs
Question 18: aggregate
Answer: defined population
Question 19: community
Answer: composed of multiple aggregates
Question 20: high risk populations
Answer: Certain groups of people who have a higher risk of getting an illness than others
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