Midterm Exam Review: NR 503/ NR503
Epidemiology Exam Review | Guide with
Verified Answers (2023/ 2024 Update)-
Chamberlain
Q: health inequity
Answer:
a difference or disparity in health outcomes that is systematic, avoidable, and unjust
Q: 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
Q: Campaign for Action
Answer:
limit health disparities across the nation
Q: Sources of epidemiological data
Answer:
HP 2020, Quick Health Data Online System, NCHS, AAMC, Health Equity
Q: Screening and Diagnostic Tests
Answer:
** population specific
** should be tested and have available statistics that speak to their specificity, sensitivity, and +
predictive value
Q: Speceficity
Answer:
Patients DO NOT have disease and were given negative test results
Q: Sensitivity
Answer:
Patients who DO have disease AND are given positive test results
Sensitive to the truth
Q: + predictive value
Answer:
Probability that a person with a + result truly does have the disease
Q: descriptive epidemiology
Answer:
collection and analysis of data: what, who, where, when, why/how (causes, risk factors, modes of
transportation)
Q: causation