Author Question: MC What is the best explanation for the use of epidemiology as a cornerstone of community health? ... (Read 32 times)

jjjetplane · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

MC What is the best explanation for the use of epidemiology as a cornerstone of community health?

A. It monitors communicable illnesses that can affect a community's health.
B. It provides an overall plan to address a community's health needs.
C. It studies distribution of health and illness and its factors in a population, and uses this knowledge to control development of a community's health problems.
D. It links cause and effect determinants of a community's health status.

Question 2

MC An event that will shape future community health nursing practice is the

A. International effort to eradicate smallpox.
B. Surveillance of the CDC on population health.
C Threat of terrorism to harm the public's health.
D. Emphasis on prospective payment for nursing services.

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

Answer to Question 1

C. It studies distribution of health and illness and its factors in a population, and uses this knowledge to control development of a community's health problems.

Answer to Question 2

C Threat of terrorism to harm the public's health.