NR503 EPIDEMIOLOGY FINAL 2026 PRACTICE
SOLVED QUESTIONS SET
◉ Domain 7 Answer: DOMAIN 7: Strategic Analysis
Strategic analysis is the ability to use systems thinking to analyze a
diverse range of complex and interrelated factors shaping health
trends to formulate programs at the local, national, and international
levels.
7.1Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic,
and health contexts.
7.2Identify the relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality,
and disability with demographic and other factors in shaping the
circumstances of the population of a specified community, country,
or region.
7.3Implement a community health needs assessment.
7.4Conduct comparative analyses of health systems.
,7.5Explain economic analyses drawn from socioeconomic and health
data.
7.6Design context-specific health interventions based on situation
analysis.
◉ The WHO conceptual framework for social determinants of health
identifies five multifactorial components of population health that
impact health outcomes Answer: biology and genetics, individual
behavior, social environment, physical environment, and health
services.
◉ USAID Answer: Activating a Disaster Assistance Response Team
(DART) staffed by the CDC, in Monrovia, Liberia, and Guinea, to
coordinate planning, operations, logistics, administrative issues, and
interagency work
•Saving more than 3 million lives with immunization programs
•Reaching over 850,000 people with HIV-prevention education after
establishing programs in 32 countries since 1987; training over
40,000 people to support HIV/AIDS programs in their own countries
•Providing family planning to more than 50 million couples
worldwide
,•Training 21,000 Honduran farm families to prevent soil erosion
•Providing oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh; saving tens of
millions of lives worldwide with this program
•Providing loans and operating costs to Bolivian Banco Solidario
(BancoSol), which is the first self-sustaining commercial bank in
Latin America to focus on microbusiness (small business loans
averaging $200 each)
◉ WHO global outbreak Answer: global Outbreak Alert and
Response Network (GOARN), which initiates an international
disease outbreak alert, technical support, vaccines, drugs,
specialists, and equipment, to prevent spread, such as the plague in
India, in 1995, which had an economic cost of over $1.7 billion
•Chemical Incident Alert and Response System (ChemiNet): initiates
alerts of industrial accidents, chemical, water, sanitation,
radionuclear or environmental health emergencies
•Global network of national health systems
•Global Polio Eradication Initiative Network (GPEIN)
, •Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN)
•FluNet
•H5N1 Avian flu tracking
•XDR-TB drug-resistant tuberculosis tracking
•Containment of 21st-century threats of bioterrorism (anthrax, etc.),
SARS, and toxic chemical waste dumping, such as the 2006 illegal
dumping of 500 tons of chemical waste in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
•WHO Foreign Policy and Global Health (FPGH) Initiative
•Coordination of responses to natural disasters, with concomitant
infectious diseases, malnutrition, mental illness, and displacement of
large numbers of people
◉ Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) Answer: The UN's creation
of eight goals for economic development and social progress in
2000. Members agreed to reach the goals by 2015.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
SOLVED QUESTIONS SET
◉ Domain 7 Answer: DOMAIN 7: Strategic Analysis
Strategic analysis is the ability to use systems thinking to analyze a
diverse range of complex and interrelated factors shaping health
trends to formulate programs at the local, national, and international
levels.
7.1Conduct a situation analysis across a range of cultural, economic,
and health contexts.
7.2Identify the relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality,
and disability with demographic and other factors in shaping the
circumstances of the population of a specified community, country,
or region.
7.3Implement a community health needs assessment.
7.4Conduct comparative analyses of health systems.
,7.5Explain economic analyses drawn from socioeconomic and health
data.
7.6Design context-specific health interventions based on situation
analysis.
◉ The WHO conceptual framework for social determinants of health
identifies five multifactorial components of population health that
impact health outcomes Answer: biology and genetics, individual
behavior, social environment, physical environment, and health
services.
◉ USAID Answer: Activating a Disaster Assistance Response Team
(DART) staffed by the CDC, in Monrovia, Liberia, and Guinea, to
coordinate planning, operations, logistics, administrative issues, and
interagency work
•Saving more than 3 million lives with immunization programs
•Reaching over 850,000 people with HIV-prevention education after
establishing programs in 32 countries since 1987; training over
40,000 people to support HIV/AIDS programs in their own countries
•Providing family planning to more than 50 million couples
worldwide
,•Training 21,000 Honduran farm families to prevent soil erosion
•Providing oral rehydration therapy in Bangladesh; saving tens of
millions of lives worldwide with this program
•Providing loans and operating costs to Bolivian Banco Solidario
(BancoSol), which is the first self-sustaining commercial bank in
Latin America to focus on microbusiness (small business loans
averaging $200 each)
◉ WHO global outbreak Answer: global Outbreak Alert and
Response Network (GOARN), which initiates an international
disease outbreak alert, technical support, vaccines, drugs,
specialists, and equipment, to prevent spread, such as the plague in
India, in 1995, which had an economic cost of over $1.7 billion
•Chemical Incident Alert and Response System (ChemiNet): initiates
alerts of industrial accidents, chemical, water, sanitation,
radionuclear or environmental health emergencies
•Global network of national health systems
•Global Polio Eradication Initiative Network (GPEIN)
, •Global Influenza Surveillance Network (GISN)
•FluNet
•H5N1 Avian flu tracking
•XDR-TB drug-resistant tuberculosis tracking
•Containment of 21st-century threats of bioterrorism (anthrax, etc.),
SARS, and toxic chemical waste dumping, such as the 2006 illegal
dumping of 500 tons of chemical waste in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
•WHO Foreign Policy and Global Health (FPGH) Initiative
•Coordination of responses to natural disasters, with concomitant
infectious diseases, malnutrition, mental illness, and displacement of
large numbers of people
◉ Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) Answer: The UN's creation
of eight goals for economic development and social progress in
2000. Members agreed to reach the goals by 2015.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
