EPIDEMIOLOGY MIDTERM NR503 2026 EXAM
PREP STUDY GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ Genomics. Answer: The study of all genes in the human genome as
well as their interaction with other genes, the individuals
environment, and the influence of cultural and psychosocial factors.
◉ Pharmacogenomics. Answer: Medication efficacy, toxicity, and
drug interaction based on genetic variations
◉ Genetic epidemiology. Answer: The link between epidemiology
and genetic
◉ Genetics Non-Discrimination Act. Answer: Was passed to offer
some protection against the potential misuse of genetic information
◉ Epidemic. Answer: Outbreak at a population level
◉ Disaster epidemiology. Answer: The use of epidemiology to assess
the short and long term adverse health effects of disasters and to
predict consequences of future disasters. It brings together various
topic areas of epidemiology including a cute and communicable
,disease, environmental health, occupational health, chronic disease,
injury, mental health, and behavioral health
◉ WHO. Answer: (World Health Organization) specialized agency of
the United Nations that is concerned with international public
health. The world health organization recognized that international
collaboration could control infectious disease better than any single
country.
◉ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Answer: Goals resulting
from a UN-led effort to end extreme poverty by focusing on 17 key
indicators, the top five of which are no poverty, zero hunger, good
health, quality education, and gender equality, with key benchmarks
for 2030.
◉ Universal declaration of human rights. Answer: All people have
the right to a standard of living that guarantees health
◉ Call to Action. Answer: Call for nurses and midwives to assume a
leadership role in addressing planetary health because nurses and
midwives are the most numerous and most patient centered
component of the health workforce. This leader ship begins with
educating ourselves, students, staff, patient, and communities about
planetary health by engaging in political and policy processes
, ◉ Community health needs assessment. Answer: Assessing whether
or not the region has the community resources that it needs.
◉ situation analysis. Answer: To analyze and identify the
relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability
within the demographic and other factors shaping thecircumstances
of the population of a specified community, country, or region.
◉ Culture. Answer: Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned
or shared) which guides the actions and decisions of each person in
the group.
◉ Cultural Organizing Factors. Answer: Communication, personal
space, social organization, time perception, environmental control,
and biological variations
◉ Macro-scale influences. Answer: Broad understandings of illness,
suffering and healing. Social roles and bureaucratic and economic
context of health care services
◉ Micro-scale influences. Answer: Face-to-face interaction at front-
lines. Successful and failed communication efforts.
PREP STUDY GUIDE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ Genomics. Answer: The study of all genes in the human genome as
well as their interaction with other genes, the individuals
environment, and the influence of cultural and psychosocial factors.
◉ Pharmacogenomics. Answer: Medication efficacy, toxicity, and
drug interaction based on genetic variations
◉ Genetic epidemiology. Answer: The link between epidemiology
and genetic
◉ Genetics Non-Discrimination Act. Answer: Was passed to offer
some protection against the potential misuse of genetic information
◉ Epidemic. Answer: Outbreak at a population level
◉ Disaster epidemiology. Answer: The use of epidemiology to assess
the short and long term adverse health effects of disasters and to
predict consequences of future disasters. It brings together various
topic areas of epidemiology including a cute and communicable
,disease, environmental health, occupational health, chronic disease,
injury, mental health, and behavioral health
◉ WHO. Answer: (World Health Organization) specialized agency of
the United Nations that is concerned with international public
health. The world health organization recognized that international
collaboration could control infectious disease better than any single
country.
◉ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Answer: Goals resulting
from a UN-led effort to end extreme poverty by focusing on 17 key
indicators, the top five of which are no poverty, zero hunger, good
health, quality education, and gender equality, with key benchmarks
for 2030.
◉ Universal declaration of human rights. Answer: All people have
the right to a standard of living that guarantees health
◉ Call to Action. Answer: Call for nurses and midwives to assume a
leadership role in addressing planetary health because nurses and
midwives are the most numerous and most patient centered
component of the health workforce. This leader ship begins with
educating ourselves, students, staff, patient, and communities about
planetary health by engaging in political and policy processes
, ◉ Community health needs assessment. Answer: Assessing whether
or not the region has the community resources that it needs.
◉ situation analysis. Answer: To analyze and identify the
relationships among patterns of morbidity, mortality, and disability
within the demographic and other factors shaping thecircumstances
of the population of a specified community, country, or region.
◉ Culture. Answer: Practices, beliefs, values, norms (can be learned
or shared) which guides the actions and decisions of each person in
the group.
◉ Cultural Organizing Factors. Answer: Communication, personal
space, social organization, time perception, environmental control,
and biological variations
◉ Macro-scale influences. Answer: Broad understandings of illness,
suffering and healing. Social roles and bureaucratic and economic
context of health care services
◉ Micro-scale influences. Answer: Face-to-face interaction at front-
lines. Successful and failed communication efforts.
