QUESTIONS WITH THE MOST RECENT
VERIFIED ANSWERS
organization that improves access to care, fosters inter-professional collaboration, promotes nursing
leadership, transforms nursing education, increase diversity in nursing, collects workforce data. - answer
✔✔-Campaign for Action
focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcome.
Four Components included in the definition:
1. Population: Group of people
2. Health: "A state of complete physical, social, and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of
disease." (Riegelman, 2020, pg. 8).
3. Health issues affecting entire society.
4. Health issues affecting vulnerable groups. - answer ✔✔-Population Health
the study of disease distribution within populations and the risk factors that affect increases or
decreases in distribution - answer ✔✔-Epidemiology
the framework for the analysis of strategies to address health disparities across socially,
demographically, or geographically defined populations. Equality of care. NPs should incorporate social
justice and ANA ethical statements to guide practice. - answer ✔✔-Social Justice
quantitative data concerning population like no. of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, etc. - answer
✔✔-Vital Statistics
The review of risks assoc with a particular even or action - answer ✔✔-Risk analysis
, people afflicted with a disease - answer ✔✔-Cases
change in health status related to the intervention provided - answer ✔✔-Outcomes
collection, analysis, dissemination of data
Surveillance is used to monitor causation to understand the etiology of disease and hopefully prevent
them. - answer ✔✔-Surveillance
mortality, morbidity, epidemic reporting, epidemic field investigation, surveys, utilization of biologic
agents/drugs, distribution of animal reservoirs, and demographic/environmental data. - answer ✔✔-10
Elements of Surveillance
this information is pulled from a database. Although you often hear of descriptive epidemiology for
outbreaks, this information is gathered on any (acute or chronic) disease over time to track who is at
risk. The three key areas of information gathered include person, place, and time. - answer ✔✔-Passive
Surveillance
on a case-by-case basis where each specific person's information is entered into a database. - answer
✔✔-Active Surveillance
Type of Surveillance
succinct written accounts of generally rare or unusual cases in which treatment of disease is worth
repeating - answer ✔✔-Case Reports
*Surveillance* a report of a series of patients with similar diseases that describe their management or
treatment in order to identify new strategies to help other patients - answer ✔✔-Case Series
*Surveillance*used to conduct studies of aggregates or population characteristics. Rates are calculated
for characteristics that describe populations and are used to compare frequencies b/t different groups at
the same time or the same group at different times *long term trends, seasonal patterns, event related
clusters* - answer ✔✔-Correlation (ecological)