NR 503 MIDTERM EXAM study guide with questions
and answers 2024
Risk Analysis - Characterization of the potential adverse health effects of human
exposures to environmental hazards
health disparities - Differences of health statuses between various populations.
Sensitivity - Measures the proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as
such (e.g., % of sick people who are correctly identified as having the condition)
Specificity - True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of healthy
people who are correctly ID's as not having the condition)
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - Probability that subjects with a positive screening test
truly have the disease
Epidemiological triangle - Triad with an external agent, host, and an environment that
cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
Confounding Variable - Extra variable not accounted for and can ruin the experiment.
Can introduce bias.
Study methods - Descriptive.
Analytic.
Experimental.
Descriptive study methods - Describes person, place, and time.
Epidemiology - Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
, Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct action by the
individual.
Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening,
treatment, prevention, and monitoring.
population health - focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
Outcomes - End result that follows an intervention
Aggregate - defined population
Community - Multiple aggregates
Data - Compiled information
Prevalence - Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
Incidence - Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.
Surveillance - Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
High-risk - An increased chance of poor health outcomes
Morbidity - Presence of illness in a population
Mortality - Tracking deaths in an aggregate
Vital statistics - statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces
Cases - Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or health
event
Social Justice - The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social
rights and opportunities-including the right to good health
Inter-professional collaboration - Collaborative action oriented toward a common goal of
improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation,
assertiveness, mutual respect, and autonomy.
HP2020 - 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
and answers 2024
Risk Analysis - Characterization of the potential adverse health effects of human
exposures to environmental hazards
health disparities - Differences of health statuses between various populations.
Sensitivity - Measures the proportion of actual positives that are correctly identified as
such (e.g., % of sick people who are correctly identified as having the condition)
Specificity - True negative rate
Measures actual negatives that are correctly identified as such (e.g., % of healthy
people who are correctly ID's as not having the condition)
Positive Predictive Value (PPV) - Probability that subjects with a positive screening test
truly have the disease
Epidemiological triangle - Triad with an external agent, host, and an environment that
cause the disease.
Environmental factors and genetics play a role.
Disease transmitted directly or indirectly.
Outright symptoms or subclinical disease.
Confounding Variable - Extra variable not accounted for and can ruin the experiment.
Can introduce bias.
Study methods - Descriptive.
Analytic.
Experimental.
Descriptive study methods - Describes person, place, and time.
Epidemiology - Science of public health.
Study of disease within populations & risk factors.
, Risk factors are genetic, environmental, social, cultural, or on some direct action by the
individual.
Servers to find the "why" of a disease & then to analyze the disease screening,
treatment, prevention, and monitoring.
population health - focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
Outcomes - End result that follows an intervention
Aggregate - defined population
Community - Multiple aggregates
Data - Compiled information
Prevalence - Existence of a disease.
Number of all cases of the disease
Incidence - Measures appearance of a disease over a period of time.
Surveillance - Collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.
High-risk - An increased chance of poor health outcomes
Morbidity - Presence of illness in a population
Mortality - Tracking deaths in an aggregate
Vital statistics - statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces
Cases - Criterion used to make decisions whether the patient has a disease or health
event
Social Justice - The view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social
rights and opportunities-including the right to good health
Inter-professional collaboration - Collaborative action oriented toward a common goal of
improving quality & safety of patient care.
Involves responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation,
assertiveness, mutual respect, and autonomy.
HP2020 - 4 goals:
1) attain high-quality lives preventable disease
