Rector Community & Public Health Nursing Test Bank 11th Ed |
Stanley & Niemi | NCLEX-Style Public Health MCQs, Epidemiology &
Population Health Review
The factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of
disease are described using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
Determinants may be individual, relational, social, communal, or environmental.
To understand the causes of health and disease, epidemiology studies:
a. Individuals
b. Families
c. Groups
d. Populations - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
Epidemiology monitors health of populations, understands determinants of health and
disease in communities, and investigates and evaluates interventions to prevent
disease and maintain health.
When a nurse examines birth and death certificates during an epidemiologic
investigation, what data category is being used?
a. Routinely collected data
b. Data collected for other purposes but useful for epidemiologic research
c. Original data collected for specific epidemiologic studies
d. Surveillance data - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: A
These are examples of data collected routinely.
An epidemiologist wanting to know what caused severe diarrhea and vomiting in several
people at a local banquet would be using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
Analytic epidemiology is directed toward understanding the etiology of the disease.
Which is an example of an epidemic?
a. Bird flu in China
b. Adult obesity in the United States
c. An isolated case of smallpox in Africa
d. The nursing shortage in the United States - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
, It is estimated that 30% of the adults in the United States are obese. According to the
CDC, this is an epidemic.
John Snow is called the father of epidemiology because of his work with:
a. Cholera
b. Malaria
c. Polio
d. Germ theory - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: A
John Snow investigated the spread of cholera in the mid-nineteenth century.
The interaction between an agent, a host, and the environment is called:
a. Natural history of disease
b. Risk
c. Web of causality
d. The epidemiologic triangle - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
The epidemiologic triangle consists of the interaction between an agent, a host, and the
environment.
Public health professionals refer to three levels of prevention as tied to specific stages
in the:
a. Epidemiologic triangle
b. Web of causation
c. Natural history of disease
d. Surveillance process - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: C
The natural history of disease is the course of the disease process from onset to
resolution. The three levels of prevention provide a framework commonly used in public
health practice to depict this process.
Which is an example of an agent in the epidemiologic triangle?
a. Human population distribution
b. Salmonella
c. Genetic susceptibility
d. Climate - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
An agent includes infectious organisms.
When studying chronic disease, the multifactorial etiology of illness is considered. What
does this imply?
a. Genetics and molecular structure of disease is paramount.
b. Single organisms that cause a disease, such as cholera, must be studied in more
detail.
c. Focus should be on the factors or combinations and levels of factors contributing to
disease.
d. The recent rise in infectious disease is the main focus. - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: C
Multifactorial etiology implies a focus on combinations and levels of factors.
Immunization for measles is an example of:
Stanley & Niemi | NCLEX-Style Public Health MCQs, Epidemiology &
Population Health Review
The factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of
disease are described using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
Determinants may be individual, relational, social, communal, or environmental.
To understand the causes of health and disease, epidemiology studies:
a. Individuals
b. Families
c. Groups
d. Populations - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
Epidemiology monitors health of populations, understands determinants of health and
disease in communities, and investigates and evaluates interventions to prevent
disease and maintain health.
When a nurse examines birth and death certificates during an epidemiologic
investigation, what data category is being used?
a. Routinely collected data
b. Data collected for other purposes but useful for epidemiologic research
c. Original data collected for specific epidemiologic studies
d. Surveillance data - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: A
These are examples of data collected routinely.
An epidemiologist wanting to know what caused severe diarrhea and vomiting in several
people at a local banquet would be using:
a. Descriptive epidemiology
b. Analytic epidemiology
c. Distribution
d. Determinants - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
Analytic epidemiology is directed toward understanding the etiology of the disease.
Which is an example of an epidemic?
a. Bird flu in China
b. Adult obesity in the United States
c. An isolated case of smallpox in Africa
d. The nursing shortage in the United States - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
, It is estimated that 30% of the adults in the United States are obese. According to the
CDC, this is an epidemic.
John Snow is called the father of epidemiology because of his work with:
a. Cholera
b. Malaria
c. Polio
d. Germ theory - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: A
John Snow investigated the spread of cholera in the mid-nineteenth century.
The interaction between an agent, a host, and the environment is called:
a. Natural history of disease
b. Risk
c. Web of causality
d. The epidemiologic triangle - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: D
The epidemiologic triangle consists of the interaction between an agent, a host, and the
environment.
Public health professionals refer to three levels of prevention as tied to specific stages
in the:
a. Epidemiologic triangle
b. Web of causation
c. Natural history of disease
d. Surveillance process - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: C
The natural history of disease is the course of the disease process from onset to
resolution. The three levels of prevention provide a framework commonly used in public
health practice to depict this process.
Which is an example of an agent in the epidemiologic triangle?
a. Human population distribution
b. Salmonella
c. Genetic susceptibility
d. Climate - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: B
An agent includes infectious organisms.
When studying chronic disease, the multifactorial etiology of illness is considered. What
does this imply?
a. Genetics and molecular structure of disease is paramount.
b. Single organisms that cause a disease, such as cholera, must be studied in more
detail.
c. Focus should be on the factors or combinations and levels of factors contributing to
disease.
d. The recent rise in infectious disease is the main focus. - >>>>>>>ANSWER ANS: C
Multifactorial etiology implies a focus on combinations and levels of factors.
Immunization for measles is an example of:
