The community health nurse knows that early attempts to understand illness and disease focused on the study of the experiences of individual people. Using this knowledge, how would the nurse define epidemiology to a group of nursing students?
A) An outbreak that occurs when there is an increased incidence of a disease beyond that which is normally found in the population
B) Model based on the belief that health status is determined by the interaction of the characteristics of the host, agent, and environment
C) Study of the distribution and determinants of states of health and illness in human populations
D) Epidemiologic model that strongly emphasizes the concept of multiple causation while de-emphasizing the role of agents in explaining illness
Ans: C
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Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of states of health and illness in human populations. An epidemic is an outbreak that occurs when there is an increased incidence of a disease beyond that which is normally found in the population. The epidemiologic triad is a model based on the belief that health status is determined by the interaction of the characteristics of the host, agent, and environment. The web of causation is an epidemiologic model that strongly emphasizes the concept of multiple causation while de-emphasizing the role of agents in explaining illness.
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