NR-503 Epidemiology Midterm Question and
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Epidemiology -✓✓The science of public health
Population Health -✓✓Focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
Outcome -✓✓The end result that follows an intervention
Aggregate -✓✓Defined population
Community -✓✓Composed of multiple aggregates
Data -✓✓Compiled information
Prevalence -✓✓Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame
Incidence -✓✓Measures the appearance of new cases
Surveillance -✓✓Collection, analysis, dissemination of data
High-risk -✓✓Increased chance of poor health outcome.
Morbidity -✓✓Presence of illness in population
Mortality -✓✓Related to the tracking of deaths within an aggregate
Community Health -✓✓The health status of a defined group of people and the actions
and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
Population-base research -✓✓Addresses health outcomes, health determinants, and
policies and interventions that link the two in efforts to improve population health and
ameliorate health disparities.
Observation -✓✓The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful,
orderly way.
Control trial -✓✓One of the trials you keep "normal" to compare the effect of what you
are changing
Infectious disease -✓✓A disease that is caused by a pathogen and that can be spread
from one individual to another.
Answer | A+ Verified Updated | Frequently Tested
Epidemiology -✓✓The science of public health
Population Health -✓✓Focuses on risk, data, demographics, and outcomes
Outcome -✓✓The end result that follows an intervention
Aggregate -✓✓Defined population
Community -✓✓Composed of multiple aggregates
Data -✓✓Compiled information
Prevalence -✓✓Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame
Incidence -✓✓Measures the appearance of new cases
Surveillance -✓✓Collection, analysis, dissemination of data
High-risk -✓✓Increased chance of poor health outcome.
Morbidity -✓✓Presence of illness in population
Mortality -✓✓Related to the tracking of deaths within an aggregate
Community Health -✓✓The health status of a defined group of people and the actions
and conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health
Population-base research -✓✓Addresses health outcomes, health determinants, and
policies and interventions that link the two in efforts to improve population health and
ameliorate health disparities.
Observation -✓✓The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful,
orderly way.
Control trial -✓✓One of the trials you keep "normal" to compare the effect of what you
are changing
Infectious disease -✓✓A disease that is caused by a pathogen and that can be spread
from one individual to another.
