QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Culture universal - ✔✔Shared values, norms, life patterns among all
cultures
Readability formulas - ✔✔Only review reading ease and grade level...
not how motivated or how much experience or any visual assistance
with design
Social learning theory - ✔✔self-efficacy- self-confidence behavior
learning
Humanistic theory - ✔✔Self-directing holistic manners
,Knowles theory - ✔✔adult learners- prefer self-directed learning, draws
on previous life experience, information in a directed manner/ problem
centered, want to know why they need to learn it
Health literacy - ✔✔how to assess, understand and use information to
make health decisions
SES (social economic status) - ✔✔May be determined by examining
income, occupation, and educational level. If not possible age, gender,
possessions, location of residence, religion, and race may also be
considered
Cultural stereotyping - ✔✔Viewing all individuals the same within a
culture, a preconceived notion of how they behave
vectors - ✔✔Mosquitos, arthropodes, ticks
Fomite - ✔✔Water, door knob, table top, infected tissue
Quarantine - ✔✔Enforced isolation or restriction of movement of those
exposed during incubation time
,Active immunity - ✔✔Produces own antibodies (immunizations)
Descriptive epidemiology - ✔✔DESCRIBES... amount and distribution of
disease which may suggest possible cause. They need to be confirmed
term-17through advanced methods (analytic)
Analytic epidemiology - ✔✔Investigates cause of why a disease rate is
lower in one population group than another
Passive immunity - ✔✔Temporary resistance via donation sources of
plasma proteins, immunoglobulins or antitoxins or transplacentaly
Epidemiological triangle - ✔✔Agent, host, environment
Web of causation - ✔✔Illustrates complexity of relationships among
modifiable and non-modifiable variables
Primary vaccine failure - ✔✔Caused by vaccine ineffective by improper
storage, given too early in schedule, exposure to light, improper
administration, or patient had no seroconversion
, Secondary vaccine failure - ✔✔immunocompromised or a person who
received organ donor.
Waning of immunity after initial immune response
Latency phase of disease - ✔✔Before shedding occurs
virulence - ✔✔Power to invade and produce very serious disease in the
hosts
Infectivity - ✔✔Power to infect large numbers of people
Indirect transmission - ✔✔Spread through a vehicle outside the host
exp. fomites or vectors
EPI QUIZ - ✔✔
The nurse working in the community is aware that there are different
models for studying the epidemiology of a health condition in a
population. One model of investigation of the interrelationships and
characteristics of disease is the epidemiological triangle. This model
analyzes what three elements?