Final Exam Review Questions Kahoot Flashcards
True or False: A disaster is any event that causes destruction and devastation that cannot be alleviated without assistance.
True
Destruction/devastation caused by storms or fires is known as a __________________ disaster.
Natural
Destruction/devastation caused by violence and war is known as a ________________ disaster.
Man-made (human-made)
What are some risk or burden considerations for people in underdeveloped countries?
poor with limited resources, higher death rates, homes less sturdy, overcrowding, fewer social supports
What are the four stages of disaster management?
1) Prevention and Mitigation, 2) Preparedness, 3) Response, 4) Recovery
In which stage of disaster management are emergency plans developed and mock training occurs?
Preparedness
In which stage of disaster management does the rescue workers arrive and triage victims?
Response
The Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response is responsible for:
providing comprehensive training and certification of emergency response teams.
The concept of Epidemiology refers to
population-focused applied science discussed in terms of person, place, and time, uses research and statistical data collection, looks at causative and risk factors of disease, and studies the determinants of health related states and events across the lifespan.
True or false: Disease results from a complex relationship among causal agents, susceptible persons, and environmental factors
True
What is the term used to describe the probability of having a positive result for having disease?
Positive predictive value
What is a measure in percent that identifies a test’s ability to identify those persons with disease?
Sensitivity
What are 3 types of epidemiological studies?
Descriptive, Analytical, Intervention
Which one is not a descriptive study? (Analytical, descriptive, intervention)
Prospective (analytical)
Order the epidemiological studies from least rigorous to more rigorous:
Descriptive, Analytic, Intervention
This type of analytic study that compares groups of people with similar characteristics to examine risk factors for disease:
Retrospective (Case control)
This type of analytic study follows groups of people with no disease over time to determine causative factors for developing disease:
Prospective (Cohort)
This type of intervention study uses drug therapy or surgical intervention to alter body mechanisms:
Therapeutic Trial
True or false: The most common measures of disease frequency are prevalence and incidence rates?
True
The occurrence of disease in the total population is referred to as:
Morbidity
What is the term used to describe the registration of vital events such as births, deaths, and health events?
Vital statistics
CHNs use an epidemiological approach for
measuring health status and disease, surveillance, case finding, assessing causative and risk factors of disease in populations, evaluation
An illness that is caused from a specific agent and its toxins that rises through transmission to a susceptible host is:
Communicable Disease
Order the concepts of disease presentation from 1) present in a population to 2) regional occurrence to 3) global occurrence.
1) Endemic, 2) Epidemic, 3) Pandemic
What are some health interventions that have put an end to epidemics that once impacted populations?
Vaccines, antibiotics, improved sanitation measures
True or false: Vertical transmission is the transport of infectious agents from person to person by direct, indirect, airborne transmission.
False. This statement reflects horizontal transmission
Bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites are known as:
Infectious agents
What are host factors that influence the spread of disease?
Resistance, immunity, infectiousness, herd immunity
What are contraindications to immunizations?
encephalopathy, severe allergy (permanent), pregnancy, immunosuppression, severe illness, blood recipient (temporary)
Which term refers to irreversible termination of all transmission of infection by extermination worldwide?
Eradicated
The concept referring to the period of time between invasion of an infectious agent and the appearance of symptoms is:
Incubation
True or false: Nosocomial infections (MRSA, VRE, C-diff) are contracted from a healthcare facility and spread in that environment.
True
A nonhuman organism (insect) that plays a role in transmission of an infectious agent from source to host is known as:
Vector
What is the term used to describe the registration of vital events such as births, deaths, and health events?
Vital statistics
