Epidemiology statistics midterm NR 503
Epidemiology Statistics Midterm NR 503
Exam Questions (94 Terms) with
Certified Solutions 2024
How does social justice and health inequities influence population health care
provision? Why is this critical information for the provision of evidence-based
care? - Answer: Social inequalities increase health disparities
What is the Campaign for Action? - Answer: established as a movement to utilize
medical professionals, specifically nurses, within an interdisciplinary network to
increase overall satisfaction with their medical care
, Epidemiology statistics midterm NR 503
Vital Statistics - Answer: provide important outcomes measures that APRNs can
monitor and compare over time and analyze by demographic variables to detect
such things as health disparities
The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning birth, marriage,
divorce, sickness, and death.
Morbidity - Answer: The presence of disease/illness in a population or aggregate
Morality - Answer: Related to the tracking of deaths within a population or
aggregate
Social Justice - Answer: the defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential
human needs are met and that essential human rights are protected for all people
Epidemiology - Answer: The study of wide spread disease among populations.
The study of disease distribution within populations and risk factors that affect
increases or decreases in distribution
Population Health - Answer: Focuses on risk, data, demographics and outcomes
Incidence - Answer: Measure the appearance of new cases
Prevalence - Answer: Measures the existence of all current cases within a time
frame
, Epidemiology statistics midterm NR 503
Outcomes - Answer: The end result that follows an intervention
Healthy People 2020 - Answer: serves as a blueprint or road map for the United
States to achieve health promotion and disease prevention objectives that are
designed to improve the health of all Americans.
Determinants of Health - Answer: areas that APRNs can also use to inform and
guide their practice to develop sociocultural appropriate interventions. ex.
poverty, education level, racism, income, and poor housing
Risk Analysis - Answer: evaluates the potential for adverse effects from exposures
(ID the hazard), identifying or setting a safe guideline for each route of exposure,
identifying exposure points and estimate exposure levels, and predicting the
adverse outcome from exposure to the chemical, pathogen, or physical condition
(characterize risk). Identify hazards. Assess the risks. Control the risks. Record your
findings. Review the controls.
Primary Interventions - Answer: Prevention of disease before it occurs.
Ex. healthy diet, immunizations, exercise, smoking cessation,
Secondary Interventions - Answer: Screening and diagnosis of disease
ex. Mammogram, colonoscopy, imaging
Purpose: helps APNs detect a disease once it is present and assist/facilitate the
patient or population to get care for the disease that has been detected
Epidemiology Statistics Midterm NR 503
Exam Questions (94 Terms) with
Certified Solutions 2024
How does social justice and health inequities influence population health care
provision? Why is this critical information for the provision of evidence-based
care? - Answer: Social inequalities increase health disparities
What is the Campaign for Action? - Answer: established as a movement to utilize
medical professionals, specifically nurses, within an interdisciplinary network to
increase overall satisfaction with their medical care
, Epidemiology statistics midterm NR 503
Vital Statistics - Answer: provide important outcomes measures that APRNs can
monitor and compare over time and analyze by demographic variables to detect
such things as health disparities
The collection, tabulation, and interpretation of data concerning birth, marriage,
divorce, sickness, and death.
Morbidity - Answer: The presence of disease/illness in a population or aggregate
Morality - Answer: Related to the tracking of deaths within a population or
aggregate
Social Justice - Answer: the defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential
human needs are met and that essential human rights are protected for all people
Epidemiology - Answer: The study of wide spread disease among populations.
The study of disease distribution within populations and risk factors that affect
increases or decreases in distribution
Population Health - Answer: Focuses on risk, data, demographics and outcomes
Incidence - Answer: Measure the appearance of new cases
Prevalence - Answer: Measures the existence of all current cases within a time
frame
, Epidemiology statistics midterm NR 503
Outcomes - Answer: The end result that follows an intervention
Healthy People 2020 - Answer: serves as a blueprint or road map for the United
States to achieve health promotion and disease prevention objectives that are
designed to improve the health of all Americans.
Determinants of Health - Answer: areas that APRNs can also use to inform and
guide their practice to develop sociocultural appropriate interventions. ex.
poverty, education level, racism, income, and poor housing
Risk Analysis - Answer: evaluates the potential for adverse effects from exposures
(ID the hazard), identifying or setting a safe guideline for each route of exposure,
identifying exposure points and estimate exposure levels, and predicting the
adverse outcome from exposure to the chemical, pathogen, or physical condition
(characterize risk). Identify hazards. Assess the risks. Control the risks. Record your
findings. Review the controls.
Primary Interventions - Answer: Prevention of disease before it occurs.
Ex. healthy diet, immunizations, exercise, smoking cessation,
Secondary Interventions - Answer: Screening and diagnosis of disease
ex. Mammogram, colonoscopy, imaging
Purpose: helps APNs detect a disease once it is present and assist/facilitate the
patient or population to get care for the disease that has been detected
