If a Nurse Is Using the Natural History of a Disease

question 4

Multiple Choice

If a nurse is using the natural history of a disease to help develop a primary prevention program for a specific disease, he or she would begin with:

• A)Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives treatment.
• B)Studying the continuum of the disease with a focus on the disease free state.
• C)Looking at screening tools for identifying person who may have the disease.
• D)Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died.

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Definitions:

Syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Linguistic Relativity

The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.

Morphemes

The smallest units of language that carry meaning, which can be words themselves or parts of words, such as prefixes or suffixes.

Phonemes

The basic units of sound in a language that distinguish one word from another, for example, the difference between the p in "pat" and the b in "bat".