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
Black flies are blood-sucking insects who vector disease, like River Blindness, while feeding on hum
Testing Visual Fields by Confrontation: The nurse and patient should be approximately at an eye to e
Formation of disease-causing amyloid fibrils
Gene Therapy of Parkinson’s Disease
Schematic drawing of initial/terminal (I/T) lymph vessel.
Parkinson’s disease