NURS 432: Population Health Final Study Guide
questions with accurate answers
'de facto' segregation Ans✓✓✓ Segregation by unwritten custom or
tradition; only nullified by personal choice
'de jure' segregation Ans✓✓✓ Racial segregation that is required by
law
"Weathering" Ans✓✓✓ High-effort coping with chronic stressors due
to multiple layers of social disadvantage
10 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Ans✓✓✓ Physical abuse,
emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect,
witnessing domestic violence, family member with mental illness,
substance abuse, incarceration, losing parent(s) to divorce
3 Fxns of public health Ans✓✓✓ Assessment, policy development,
assurance
6 categories of SDOH Ans✓✓✓ -Access to quality education
-Access to quality healthcare
-Economic stability
-Food & nutrition
-Neighborhood & built environment
-Social & community context
,6 ways to deconstruct implicit bias Ans✓✓✓ 1) Replace the stereotype
2) Counter the stereotype
3) See pt as individual
4) Take perspective of pt
5) Connect more with pt
6) Build partnerships
Absolute risk Ans✓✓✓ The risk of a certain event happening in one
group
Access to quality education Ans✓✓✓ Higher education → healthier &
longevity
Access to quality health care Ans✓✓✓ Expansion of health care access
is essential to decrease health disparities and to increase the QoL
Active acquried immunity Ans✓✓✓ Antibody production in response
to exposure
Acute trauma (I) Ans✓✓✓ -A single overwhelming event such as rape,
death of loved one, natural disaster
-Sx: detailed memories, omens, hyper-vigilance, exaggerated startle
response, misperceptions, and overreactions
, Affective domain Ans✓✓✓ Involves a change in attitude and
development of values
Allostatic load Ans✓✓✓ Wear and tear on the body caused by
prolonged or excessive stress responses
Ambivalence Ans✓✓✓ Conflicting feelings; signified by "but"
Analytic epidemiology Ans✓✓✓ Investigation of the determinants of
disease
Asylum seeker Ans✓✓✓ A person who's left their country and seeking
protection from persecution & human rights violations in another
country, but has not been legally recognized as a refugee
Case fatality Ans✓✓✓ % of persons with a condition who will die of it
Causality criteria Ans✓✓✓ 1) Consistency - observed consistently in
multiple studies
2) Strength - statistically strong (e.g., high correlation)
3) Specificity - cause always creates same effect
4) Temporal relationship - cause always occurs before effect
5) Coherence - cause/effect relationship is consistent with other existing
knowledge
questions with accurate answers
'de facto' segregation Ans✓✓✓ Segregation by unwritten custom or
tradition; only nullified by personal choice
'de jure' segregation Ans✓✓✓ Racial segregation that is required by
law
"Weathering" Ans✓✓✓ High-effort coping with chronic stressors due
to multiple layers of social disadvantage
10 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Ans✓✓✓ Physical abuse,
emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect,
witnessing domestic violence, family member with mental illness,
substance abuse, incarceration, losing parent(s) to divorce
3 Fxns of public health Ans✓✓✓ Assessment, policy development,
assurance
6 categories of SDOH Ans✓✓✓ -Access to quality education
-Access to quality healthcare
-Economic stability
-Food & nutrition
-Neighborhood & built environment
-Social & community context
,6 ways to deconstruct implicit bias Ans✓✓✓ 1) Replace the stereotype
2) Counter the stereotype
3) See pt as individual
4) Take perspective of pt
5) Connect more with pt
6) Build partnerships
Absolute risk Ans✓✓✓ The risk of a certain event happening in one
group
Access to quality education Ans✓✓✓ Higher education → healthier &
longevity
Access to quality health care Ans✓✓✓ Expansion of health care access
is essential to decrease health disparities and to increase the QoL
Active acquried immunity Ans✓✓✓ Antibody production in response
to exposure
Acute trauma (I) Ans✓✓✓ -A single overwhelming event such as rape,
death of loved one, natural disaster
-Sx: detailed memories, omens, hyper-vigilance, exaggerated startle
response, misperceptions, and overreactions
, Affective domain Ans✓✓✓ Involves a change in attitude and
development of values
Allostatic load Ans✓✓✓ Wear and tear on the body caused by
prolonged or excessive stress responses
Ambivalence Ans✓✓✓ Conflicting feelings; signified by "but"
Analytic epidemiology Ans✓✓✓ Investigation of the determinants of
disease
Asylum seeker Ans✓✓✓ A person who's left their country and seeking
protection from persecution & human rights violations in another
country, but has not been legally recognized as a refugee
Case fatality Ans✓✓✓ % of persons with a condition who will die of it
Causality criteria Ans✓✓✓ 1) Consistency - observed consistently in
multiple studies
2) Strength - statistically strong (e.g., high correlation)
3) Specificity - cause always creates same effect
4) Temporal relationship - cause always occurs before effect
5) Coherence - cause/effect relationship is consistent with other existing
knowledge
