Exam 13: Epidemiology

What term is used to identify the proportion of persons with positive test results who have a disease, interpreted as the probability that an individual with a positive test result has the disease?

What is the interaction between an agent, a host, and the environment called?

A nurse is investigating an outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness from a foodborne pathogen. The process associated with which of the following terms is being applied?

What is used to determine patterns of disease using existing factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors?

Public health professionals refer to three levels of prevention as tied to specific stages in what related factor?

A public health nurse (PHN) implements a primary prevention intervention in the community. Which of the following is most likely being implemented?

Because of an outbreak of influenza in a community, a nurse encourages members of the community to receive the influenza vaccine. Which of the following levels of prevention is being used?

The probability an event will occur within a specified time period is referred to by what term?

John Snow is called the "father of epidemiology" because of his work with which disease?

A public health nurse (PHN) conducts an immunization clinic for measles. Which of the following is being implemented?

A nurse examines birth and death certificates during an epidemiologic investigation. Which of the following data categories is being used?