Vital Statistics

Question 1

• the study of distribution of disease or physiologic condition among human population s and the factors affecting such distribution
• the study of the occurrence and distribution of health conditions such as disease, death, deformities or disabilities on human populations
  -Backbone of the prevention od disease

Answer 1

Epidemiology

Question 2

A ____ rate is considered a primary and important indicator of an area’s overall health status or quality of life. Maternal mortality rate can be used as an indicator of access to prenatal and obstetrics care (where additional resources may be needed).

Answer 2

maternal mortality

Question 3

shows agent, host, and environment as having equal influence

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The Epidemiologic Triangle (Triad)

Question 4

Role of Nurses in Epidemiology
*Case Finding
*Health Teaching
*Counseling
*Follow up visit

Answer 4

Role of Nurses in Epidemiology
*Case Finding
*Health Teaching
*Counseling
*Follow up visit

Question 5

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an area becomes vulnerable to a diseaseupsurge due to causal factors such as climatic changes, ecologic changes, or socio-economic changes

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Epidemic potential

Question 6

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A situation when there is ahigh incidence of new casesof a specific disease in excess of the expected.
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when the proportion of the susceptible are high compared to the proportion of the immunes
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E.g. Dengue outbreak during rainy season

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Epidemic

Question 7

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habitual presence of a diseasein a given geographic location accounting for the low number of both immune and susceptible.
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E.g. Malaria is a disease endemic at Palawan.
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Thecausative factorof the disease is constantly available or present to the area.

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Endemic

Question 8

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disease occursevery now and thenaffecting only a small number of people relative to the total population
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Intermittent or “on and off”

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Sporadic

Question 9

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globaloccurrence of a disease
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E.g. COVID-19 in 2020

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Pandemic

Question 14

What agency is in charge of filing the data of the population and the characteristic such as age and sex?

Answer 14

Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) under RA 10625

Question 15

What agency do we register the births and deaths of an individual in the city?
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Answer 15

The birth of a child shall be registered within 30 days from the time of birth in the Office of the Local Civil Registrar ( under PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 651)

Question 16

Who does the registration of births?
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Answer 16

Physicians, nurses, midwives and “hilots” or anybody who attended to the delivery of the child
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For unattended births, the parents or any responsible person has the duty

Question 16

Who does the registration of death?
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the physician who last attended the deceased or the administrator of the hospital or clinic where the person died to prepare the certificate of death

Question 17

What law mandates the civil registration?
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the Civil Registry Law (Act No. 3753)

Question 18

(also called “Age-Sex Pyramid”) is a graphical representation of the age and sex of a population

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Population pyramid

Question 19

largest city in the ph

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QC

Question 19

Types of Population Pyramid

-pyramid with a narrow base (lower percentage of younger people, indicating declining birth rates with each succeeding age group getting smaller than the previous one).

Answer 19

Constrictive

Question 19

Types of Population Pyramid

-pyramid with a wide base (larger percentage of people in younger age groups, indicating high birth rates and high fertility rates) and narrow top (high death rate and lower life expectancies). It suggests a growing population.

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Expansive

Question 19

Types of Population Pyramid