NSG 221 Final Review 2024/2025 updated already passed

NSG 221 Final ReviewAnalytic Epidemiology - correct answer method that investigates the causes of disease by determining why a disease rate is lower in one population group than in another Descriptive Epidemiology - correct answer a form of epidemiology that describes a disease according to its person, place, or time Web of Causation - correct answer a model that can be used to illustrate complex interrelationships of factors interacting with each other to influence the risk for, or distribution of, health outcomes Screening Programs - correct answer a secondary prevention activity that identifies risk factors and diseases in their earliest stages Surveillance - correct answer A mechanism for the ongoing collection of health information in a community Host-Agent-Environment - correct answer Epidemiological triangle model Host - correct answer a living human or animal organism in which an infectious agent can exist under natural conditions Agent - correct answer causative factor invading a susceptible host through an environment favorable to produce disease, such as biological or chemical agent Environment - correct answer the accumulation of physical, social, cultural, economic, and political conditions that influence the lives of communities (Chapter 14); that which surrounds the human host and where transmission of an infectious agent is occurring Rates - correct answer arithmetic expressions that allow one to consider a count of an event relative to the size of the population from which it is extracted