NR503 Week 1 Quiz Latest 2021 April

NR503 Population Health Epidemiology and Statistical Principles

Week 1 Quiz

Question 1 Build pairs of matching values. Students will see values on the left and have to select the matching value on the right from a dropdown. Multiple rows can have the same answer, and you can add additional distractors to the right side.

The science of public health.

Epidemiology

Focuses on risk, data, demographics and outcomes.

Population Health

The end result that follows an intervention.

Outcome

Defined population.

Aggregate

Composed of multiple aggregates.

Community

Compiled information.

Data

Measures the existence of all current cases within a time frame.

Prevalence

Measures the appearance of new cases.

Incidence

Collection, analysis, dissemination of data.

Surveillance

Increased chance of poor health outcome.

High-risk

Presence of illness in population.

Morbidity

Related to the tracking of deaths within an aggregate.

Mortality

Question 2 You are a nurse practitioner providing hypertension screening at a local health fair. This screening is categorized as what type of prevention?

  primary prevention

  secondary prevention

  mortality prevention

  tertiary prevention

Question 3 A nurse practitioner and physician’s assistant are collaborating on a project to determine the number of new cases of traumatic brain injury per year from football in their community. What word best describes the data they are looking for?

  Mortality rate

  Incidence

  Morbidity rates

  Outcomes

Question 4 The focus on assessing risk, data and demographics for large groups is the practice of which of the following:

  Social Justice

  Community health care

  Epidemiology

  Population Health

Question 5 A provider is working on collecting outcome data for an intervention to increase the quality of life for spouses providing care to their spouses with dementia. What would the family members who received the intervention (those spouses receiving the intervention) be referred to?

  A Population

  A Community

  An Aggregate

  A Demographic