Exam 12: Epidemiology

The proportion of persons with positive test results who actually have a disease,interpreted as the probability that an individual with a positive test result has the disease,is the:

Which would be considered a serious epidemic of influenza?

As a result of an outbreak of influenza in a community,a nurse encourages members of the community to receive the influenza vaccine.Which level of prevention is being used?

When a nurse examines birth and death certificates during an epidemiologic investigation,what data category is being used?

The factors,exposures,characteristics,and behaviors that determine patterns of disease are described using:

John Snow is called the "father of epidemiology" because of his work with:

Immunization for measles is an example of:

An example of tertiary prevention is:

The interaction between an agent,a host,and the environment is called:

A nurse is told that a screening test has high specificity.This means that the test:

An example of an attack rate is the:

Epidemiologic studies of diseases conducted by nurses during the twentieth century were influenced by the (select all that apply):