N471 Exam 1, N471 Exam -1 Public Health QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

N471 Exam 1, N471 Exam #1 Public Health
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QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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What is public health considered? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔prevention


What are considered primary preventions? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔immunizations, education |\




This is considered a secondary prevention. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔screenings


This is the actual treatment of a disease (medication or surgery) -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔tertiary prevention
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This nurse was the queen of infection interventions and once said
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that "it is cheaper to promote health than to maintain people in
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sickness." - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Florence Nightingale
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Name some social determinants of health - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔behavior, genes, social, access to healthcare, environmental
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exposure, education |\




What is the goal of epidemiology? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔limit
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disease injury and death via interventions
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, What is the job of an epidemiologist? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔understand the source of illness, who is exposed, prevent |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


additional cases |\




A new condition or event - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔incidence
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An epidemic that spreads to larger populations beyond several
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countries or continents. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔pandemic
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What does the CDC believe is the next pandemic? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔antibiotic resistance |\ |\




What does analytic epidemiology do? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔compares why one group has a disease and another does not
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What 3 components make up the epidemiological triad? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔agent, host, environment
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What are considered agent factors for an epidemiological triad? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔virus, bacteria, parasite
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What does social epidemiology measure? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔the impact of the social environment on health outcomes
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What is the biggest problem with EMR's? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔confidentiality