Epidemiology Midterm Flashcards
What are 4 characteristics of Community Health Nursing:
group over individual
combines nursing science with public health
focuses on POPULATION outcomes
emphasis on primary prevention
Frieden’s Health Impact Pyramid ranked from least population impact to most population impact:
- counseling/education
- clinical interventions
- protection interventions
- changing the context to make individual default decisions healthy
- socioeconomic factors
Note: this backwards increases individual effort needed
3 Types of Community:
geographic: a city/town
common interest: church, professionals organization, people with mastectomies
community of solution: a group of people who come together to solve a problem
Levels of Prevention:
Primary: education, vaccinations, lifestyle changes
Secondary: health screening/ preventative
Tertiary: treating a disease that’s in progress
Healthy people 2020 goals:
attain high-quality, longer lives
attain health equity and get rid of disparities
create environments that promote good health
promote quality of life, healthy. development and healthy. behaviors
Levels of Prevention:
Primary: stops illness from happening. ex. education, vaccinations, lifestyle changes
Secondary: treat/detect disease before it becomes symptomatic. ex. health screening/preventative
Tertiary: treating a disease that’s in progress
Public health vs. community health:
Public health: focused on general population wellbeing - more preventative
Community health: IDs an issue w/i the community and makes a plan to fix it
Community health nursing roles:
CM CLEAR
Collaborator
Manager
Clinician Leader Educator Advocate Researcher
Define epidemiology:
the study of the distribution and determinants of health events and the application of this study to control the problem
Disease is:
Not random
Measurable
incidence vs. prevalence:
incidence: all new cases of a disease
prevalence: all people with a condition within a population
causality:
the relationship b/w cause and effect
Which are descriptive study designs?
Investigations that observe and describe patterns
Group associations
Cross sectional studies
Case reports
Case series
Pandemic
epidemics in several parts of the world
Pandemic
epidemics in several parts of the world
Define the Epidemiological Triad Model:
Host, environment, agent triad
Define the Web of Causation Model:
a map of relationships between factors and a health condition
includes direct and indirect cause of disease
helps to determine areas where efforts at control would be most effective
Per diem and cobra
DON’T DO IT
The 7 steps for establishing a research process:
- ID the px
- Review the literature
- design the study
- collect the data
- analyze the findings
- develop conclusions
- disseminate the findings.
Per diem and cobra
DON’T DO IT
3 types of epidemiology investigation:
descriptive
analytic
experimental
Quality of care
US is best
and sucks at everything else
The 7 steps for establishing a research process:
- ID the px
- review the literature
- design the study
- collect the data
- analyze the findings
- develop conclusions
- disseminate the findings.
Per diem and COBRA
DON’T DO IT
IT WON’T BE THE ANSWER
What are 3 recent pandemics:
HIV/AIDS
Ebola
H1N1
How does the U.S. healthcare system measure up?
US is best at quality of care and sucks at everything else
What are 3 recent pandemics?
HIV/AIDS
Ebola
H1N1
Burden of disease =
rate of occurrence