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NCM 113 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING 2

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Assignment 3 – Health Statistics and Epidemiology

Instructions: Write answers in your notebook. Please write legibly.

GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. What are sources of data for calculation of health indicators?

2. List the three components of demography

3. Define health indicators.

4. List and describe the following health indicators? What is the formula for each health indicators?

I Mortality Indicators

a. Crude death rate

b. Specific mortality rate
c. Cause of death rate
d. Infant mortality rate
e. Neonatal mortality rate
f. Postneonatal mortality rate
g. Maternal mortality rate
h. Case fatality rate

II Morbidity Indicators

a. Prevalence proportion
b. Cumulative incidence
c. Attack rate
d. Incidence rate

III. Population Indicators

a. Crude birth rate

b. General fertility rate

5. Research the current Philippine health situation in terms of:

a. Demographic profile
b. Health profile

6. Define epidemiology.

7. Describe the stages in the natural history of disease and the levels of prevention.

8. Explain the epidemiologic models of disease causation.

9. What is a disease outbreak?

10. List the basic steps in outbreak investigation.

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