NR-503 Epidemiology final Actual Exam
Questions with Verified Complete
Accurate Answers latest update 2025
Clinical disease --- correct answer ---disease characterized by signs
and symptoms
Preclinical disease --- correct answer ---disease that is not yet
clinically apparent, but is destined to progress to clinical disease
Subclinical disease --- correct answer ---disease that is not clinical
apparent, not destined to become clinically apparent
Pandemic --- correct answer ---excessive occurrence of disease
present globally
Herd immunity --- correct answer ---resistance of group of people to
disease because large portion of population is immune
Epidemiology --- correct answer ---the science of public health
,Population Health --- correct answer ---Focuses on risk, data,
demographics and outcomes
Aggregate --- correct answer ---A defined population
Community --- correct answer ---Composed of multiple aggregates
Data --- correct answer ---Compiled information
Prevalence --- correct answer ---Measures the existence of the disease
Incidence --- correct answer ---Measures the appearance
Surveillance --- correct answer ---Collection, Analysis, dissemination
of data
High Risk --- correct answer ---Increased chance of poor health
outcome
Morbidity --- correct answer ---Presence of illness in a population
,Cultural competence --- correct answer ---A dynamic, fluid,
continuous process whereby an individual, system or healthcare
agency find meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based in
knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of
those to whom they tender care
Norms and values --- correct answer ---Specific practices that guide
their actions and decisions of each person in a group based on their
culture. Can be either learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model --- correct answer ---A set of questions
the advanced practice nurse can use in order to assess the culture of a
patient and proposes that individuals have vastly different notions of
health and disease.
Socio economic status --- correct answer ---A measure that takes into
account three interrelated dimensions: a persons income level,
education level, and type of occupation. Some measures of
socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
Disparities --- correct answer ---A higher burden of illness, injury,
disability, or mortality experienced by one group in relation to
another. ex. Socioeconomic, health, racial or ethnic
, Food desert --- correct answer ---Neighborhoods and communities
that have limited access to affordable fresh and nutritious food
Social determinants of health --- correct answer ---Things like
poverty, education level, racism, income and poor housing that affect
access to healthcare
Social justice theory --- correct answer ---The goal that all people will
have equal opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare
will be the same
Accommodation --- correct answer ---To create an environment that
accommodates health practice and ritual from other cultures within a
plan of care
Acculturation --- correct answer ---Degree To which an individual
from one culture has given up the traits of that culture and adopted
the traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
Assimilation --- correct answer ---This social, economic, and political
integration of a cultural group into main stream society to which it
may have emigrated
Questions with Verified Complete
Accurate Answers latest update 2025
Clinical disease --- correct answer ---disease characterized by signs
and symptoms
Preclinical disease --- correct answer ---disease that is not yet
clinically apparent, but is destined to progress to clinical disease
Subclinical disease --- correct answer ---disease that is not clinical
apparent, not destined to become clinically apparent
Pandemic --- correct answer ---excessive occurrence of disease
present globally
Herd immunity --- correct answer ---resistance of group of people to
disease because large portion of population is immune
Epidemiology --- correct answer ---the science of public health
,Population Health --- correct answer ---Focuses on risk, data,
demographics and outcomes
Aggregate --- correct answer ---A defined population
Community --- correct answer ---Composed of multiple aggregates
Data --- correct answer ---Compiled information
Prevalence --- correct answer ---Measures the existence of the disease
Incidence --- correct answer ---Measures the appearance
Surveillance --- correct answer ---Collection, Analysis, dissemination
of data
High Risk --- correct answer ---Increased chance of poor health
outcome
Morbidity --- correct answer ---Presence of illness in a population
,Cultural competence --- correct answer ---A dynamic, fluid,
continuous process whereby an individual, system or healthcare
agency find meaningful and useful care delivery strategies based in
knowledge of the cultural heritage, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of
those to whom they tender care
Norms and values --- correct answer ---Specific practices that guide
their actions and decisions of each person in a group based on their
culture. Can be either learned or shared.
Kleinman Explanatory Model --- correct answer ---A set of questions
the advanced practice nurse can use in order to assess the culture of a
patient and proposes that individuals have vastly different notions of
health and disease.
Socio economic status --- correct answer ---A measure that takes into
account three interrelated dimensions: a persons income level,
education level, and type of occupation. Some measures of
socioeconomic status use only one dimension such as income.
Disparities --- correct answer ---A higher burden of illness, injury,
disability, or mortality experienced by one group in relation to
another. ex. Socioeconomic, health, racial or ethnic
, Food desert --- correct answer ---Neighborhoods and communities
that have limited access to affordable fresh and nutritious food
Social determinants of health --- correct answer ---Things like
poverty, education level, racism, income and poor housing that affect
access to healthcare
Social justice theory --- correct answer ---The goal that all people will
have equal opportunity to healthcare access and quality of healthcare
will be the same
Accommodation --- correct answer ---To create an environment that
accommodates health practice and ritual from other cultures within a
plan of care
Acculturation --- correct answer ---Degree To which an individual
from one culture has given up the traits of that culture and adopted
the traits of the dominant culture in which they now reside
Assimilation --- correct answer ---This social, economic, and political
integration of a cultural group into main stream society to which it
may have emigrated
