Community Health Nursing II Health Statistics and Epidemiology Reporters Quiz

Statistics and Epidemiology

• Statistics is the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
• Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to the control of health problems.

Importance of Health Statistics in Public Health and Community

• Nurses use statistics to identify patterns in vital signs and symptoms to make informed decisions about a patient's medical status.
• Statistics are vital for public health's assessment function, identifying special risk groups, detecting new health threats, planning public health programs, and evaluating their success.
• Statistics help prepare government budgets and characterize the magnitude and distribution of illness and injury.

Demography

• Demography is the study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, marriages, and incidence of disease.
• It is also the scientific study of human population primarily with respect to their size, structure, and development.

Sources of Data

• Census
• Survey
• Administrative records

Population

• Population refers to all inhabitants of a particular town, area, or community.
• Population size refers to the number of individuals in a population.
• Population records serve as key demographic variables.

Vital Statistics

• Vital Statistics is the study of the characteristics of human populations.
• It comprises important events in human life, such as births, deaths, and disease statistics.
• Statistics on population and characteristics such as age and sex distribution are obtained from the Philippines Statistics Authority.

Use of Vital Statistics

• Vital Statistics indicates the health and illness status of the community.
• Vital Statistics serves as a basis for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating community health nursing programs and services.

Composition of Population

• Composition of Population refers to the description of characteristics of a group of people in terms of factors such as age, sex, marital status, education, occupation, and relationship to the head of household.

Distribution of Population

• The distribution of population refers to the way people are spread across a given area.
• There are different scales of distribution: local, national, regional, and global.
• Urban-Rural composition refers to the distribution and proportion of population between urban and rural areas.
• Crowding Index refers to a measure used to assess the level of congestion or overcrowding within a given space (housing).
• Population Density measures the number of people living per unit area.

Test your knowledge on health statistics and epidemiology in community health nursing. Explore the practice of collecting and analyzing numerical data to infer proportions in a whole from representative samples, as well as the study of health-related states in populations.