Author Question: A nurse who is studying chronic disease considers the multifactorial etiology of illness. What does ... (Read 82 times)

vinney12 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nurse who is studying chronic disease considers the multifactorial etiology of illness. What does this imply?

a. Genetics and molecular structure of dis-ease is paramount.
b. Single organisms that cause a disease, such as cholera, must be studied in more detail
c. Focus should be on the factors or combi-nations and levels of factors contributing to disease.
d. The recent rise in infectious disease is the main focus.

Question 2

The factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease are de-scribed using:

a. descriptive epidemiology.
b. analytic epidemiology.
c. distribution.
d. determinants.

succesfull · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Multifactorial etiology implies a focus on combinations and levels of factors. There are many factors to consider other than only genetics or single organisms with multifactorial etiologies. The focus of studying multifactorial etiology is on chronic disease.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: D
Determinants are the factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that determine patterns of disease, which may be individual, relational, social, communal, or environmental. Descriptive ep-idemiology seeks to describe the occurrence of a disease in terms of person, place, and time. An-alytic epidemiology focuses on the investigation of causes and associations. Distribution de-scribes who has the disease and where and when the disease occurs.