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beccaep

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If a nurse takes the number of new cases of a disease or illness among the contacts of initial (primary) cases and divides it by the number of people in the population at risk, he or she is calculating the
 
  A. Prevalence
  B. Incidence
  C. Secondary attack rate
  D. Attack rate

Question 2

A public health nurse (PHN) is asked by the hospital administration to find out why there are so many pediatric asthma patients coming to the ER for treatment and to develop a plan to reduce admissions by 10.
 
  The nurse needs to untangle the multiple risk factors involved in order to determine what type of intervention should be developed, so he or she uses:
  A. Descriptive data analysis
  B. The ecological model
  C. Demography
  D. The web of causation


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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: C

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D


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