Practice Questions Flashcards
T/F: global health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being, not merely the absence of ideas or infirmity
false
this is the defintion of health
global health prioritizes improving health and equity for all people worldwide with an emphasis on transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions
what is an epidemiologic transition
A. high fertility and high mortality resulting in slow population growth
B. improvement in hygiene and nutrition leading to a decreased burden of infectious diseases
C. decline in mortality and later decline in fertility
D. high and fluctuation mortality, due to poor health, epidemics, and famine
D.
this one demonstrates epidemiological transition, the other answers describe demographic
T/F: risk factors are personal habits are behaviors, environmental conditions, or inborn or inherited characteristics that are known to affect a health related condition
true
T/F: health worker migration increases the burden to care for a society and results in the need to shift tasks primarily to nurses and community health workers
true
T/F: Culture is static, private, and inherited
false
dynamic, shared, learned
T/F: Cultural competence is an attitude of openness to, respect for, and curiosity about different cultural values and traditions, and ideally includes a border critical analysis of power relations affecting health disparities
true
T/F: advocates for groups that have been sociopolitically marginalized promote “Cultural safety” the ideal of considering cultural aspects of groups while working against assimilation and repression
true
T/F: cultural humility is an acknowledgement that our own beliefs are inherently better than those of our clients
false
cultural humility is an acknowledgment that EVERYONEs views are culturally influences, that our own are not inherently better than those of our clients
T/F: ethnocentrism can be defined as an assumption that everyone shares your cultural values, or an opinion that your culture is superior to others
true
T/F: epidemic- an outbreak that occurs when there is an increased incidence of a disease beyond that which is normally found In the population
true
Who is perhaps the best known epidemiologist of the 19th century
A. John Graunt
B. William Farr
C. John Snow
D. Florence Nightingale
John snow
T/F: wheel of causation is the classic model based on the belief that health status is determined by the interaction of the characteristics of the host, agent, and enviornment, not by any single factor
false, epidemiologic triad
T/F: community assessments, using epidemiology principles, form the data base that provides the evidence and rationale for interventions
individual and community assessments
T/F: adjusted rate is the measurement of the occurrence of the health problem of condition being investigated in the entire population
false
defitnion of the crude rate
adjusted rate is the statistical procedure that removes the effects of differences in the composition of a population, such as age, when comparing one with another
what is the name of the prevalence rate that indicates the existence of a condition during an interval of time, such as a year?
A. peroid
B. periodic change
C. point
D. rate
A. period
T/F: indicence rate is the measure of the probability that people without a certain condition will develop that condition over a peroid of time
true
what is the term for the ratio of the indicence rate in the exposed group and the incidence rate in the non exposed group
A. adjusted
B. rate
C. crude
D. reactive risk ratio
D. relative risk ratio
T/F
a carrier is a person or animal who harbors an infectious organism and transmits the organism to others while having no symptoms of the disease
true
T/F
an infectious disease is not contagious or communicable
false, it may or may not be contagious
EX: vaccines
T/F:
epidemic is the constant or usual prevalence of a specific disease or infectious agent within a population or geographic area
false, explaining endemic
T/F: in descriptive studies, the researched relies on comparisons between groups to determine the role of various risk factors causing the probelm
false, this is describing analytic
T/F: cohort studies involve an in-depth analysis of an individual, group, or social institution
false, case studies