Community WGU OA prep questions
with 100% correct answers 2025
descriptive epidemiology - answer The Who what when where person place
and time of disease patterns
analytic epidemiology - answer focuses on the causes and associations of
disease
Epidemiology - answer study of health related trends in populations for the
purposes of disease prevention, health maintenance, and health protection
--broad understanding of the spread, transmission, and incidence of dz and
injury
Determinants of epidemiology - answer How and why
-->Factors, exposures, characteristics, behaviors, context that determines the
patterns
Epdiemiology aims - answer -describe distribution (how, where, and when)
-look at factors that explain the patterns of disease or risk of occurance
-Focuses on populations to determine causes of health and disease and
investigate and eval. interventions that prevent dz. and maintain health
Epidemiological triad - answer agent, host, environment
Epidemic - answer the rate of disease, injury, or other condition exceeds the
usual level of that condition
,rate - answer measure of the frequency of a health event
incidence rate - answer rate of development of NEW CASES in a population
at risk
incidence proportion - answer the proportion of the population at risk who
experience the event over some period of time
prevalence proportion - answer Measure of EXISTING dz in a population at
a particular time
attack rate - answer the proportion of persons who are exposed to an agent
and develop the disease
crude mortality rate - answer # of deaths from any cause during time
interval/ estimated mid-interval population
(estimate of the risk for death for a person in a given population for that year)
Case fatality rate (CFR) - answer proportion of persons diagnosed with a
particular disorder who die within a specified period
proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) - answer proportion of all deaths
resulting from a specific cause
web of casuality - answer complex interrelationships of many factors
interacting to increase or decrease cv the risk of disease.
, ecological model - answer treats multiple determinants of health as
interrelated and acting synergistically rather than as discrete factors
Primary Prevention - answer Think: "PIE"
"P" for Prevention
Immunization
Education
--also Access to health care, and Classes
Secondary Prevention - answer "S" for screenings, surveillance and
community assessments
Tertiary Prevention - answer Rehab
Bedside nursing in hosptial
PT and OT
SUPPORT GROUPS
Exercise for pt w/hypertension
--Anything that has a chronic disease/injury etc that you are doing post
dignosis is tertiary
community - answer a group of people and institutions that share geographic
civic and/or social parameters
community health nursres - answer promote, preserve and maintain the
ehalth of populations by delivery of health services--they practice in the
community
with 100% correct answers 2025
descriptive epidemiology - answer The Who what when where person place
and time of disease patterns
analytic epidemiology - answer focuses on the causes and associations of
disease
Epidemiology - answer study of health related trends in populations for the
purposes of disease prevention, health maintenance, and health protection
--broad understanding of the spread, transmission, and incidence of dz and
injury
Determinants of epidemiology - answer How and why
-->Factors, exposures, characteristics, behaviors, context that determines the
patterns
Epdiemiology aims - answer -describe distribution (how, where, and when)
-look at factors that explain the patterns of disease or risk of occurance
-Focuses on populations to determine causes of health and disease and
investigate and eval. interventions that prevent dz. and maintain health
Epidemiological triad - answer agent, host, environment
Epidemic - answer the rate of disease, injury, or other condition exceeds the
usual level of that condition
,rate - answer measure of the frequency of a health event
incidence rate - answer rate of development of NEW CASES in a population
at risk
incidence proportion - answer the proportion of the population at risk who
experience the event over some period of time
prevalence proportion - answer Measure of EXISTING dz in a population at
a particular time
attack rate - answer the proportion of persons who are exposed to an agent
and develop the disease
crude mortality rate - answer # of deaths from any cause during time
interval/ estimated mid-interval population
(estimate of the risk for death for a person in a given population for that year)
Case fatality rate (CFR) - answer proportion of persons diagnosed with a
particular disorder who die within a specified period
proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) - answer proportion of all deaths
resulting from a specific cause
web of casuality - answer complex interrelationships of many factors
interacting to increase or decrease cv the risk of disease.
, ecological model - answer treats multiple determinants of health as
interrelated and acting synergistically rather than as discrete factors
Primary Prevention - answer Think: "PIE"
"P" for Prevention
Immunization
Education
--also Access to health care, and Classes
Secondary Prevention - answer "S" for screenings, surveillance and
community assessments
Tertiary Prevention - answer Rehab
Bedside nursing in hosptial
PT and OT
SUPPORT GROUPS
Exercise for pt w/hypertension
--Anything that has a chronic disease/injury etc that you are doing post
dignosis is tertiary
community - answer a group of people and institutions that share geographic
civic and/or social parameters
community health nursres - answer promote, preserve and maintain the
ehalth of populations by delivery of health services--they practice in the
community
