1. How does social justice and health inequities influence population health care
provision? Why is this critical information for the provision of evidence-based care?
2. Are you able to both define and apply key terms, such as: vital statistics, morbidity,
mortality, cases, social justice, epidemiology, population health, incidence, prevalence,
outcomes, inter-professional collaboration, HP2020, determinants of health, risk
analysis?
3. What is the Campaign for Action?
4. Explain the differences between primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions?
Week 2
1. Is screening a tertiary intervention? If yes, why, if not, what is it?
2. How does a provider determine the usefulness, appropriateness, of a screening test?
Where would a NP look to find a screening test? What determines if a screening test
should be used?
3. Can you explain what “descriptive epidemiology” means? What is the purpose? How is it
used?
4. How are causation and descriptive epidemiology related, how do they work together to
aid evidence-based care?
5. What does “causation” mean? Can you relate causation to primary, secondary and
tertiary interventions?
Week 3
1. What is a case-control study and how does it differ (or how is it the same) as the cohort
study design?
2. Can you talk about the ways bias shows up in a study design (such as, selection bias)
etc.?
3. What is different in a randomized control trial than, for instance, a case-control study
(or a cohort study)? What does it mean to show a causal relationship?
4. What is each type of study used for, its purpose, and its outcomes? How are the
outcomes different in each study design? Measured?
5. What is an intervention group? Where is it found?
6. Can you explain a retrospective versus a prospective study design? What are the pros
and cons of each?
7. How are groups selected for each of the study designs?
8. What is meant by “scientific misconduct”?
9. Differentiate: random error, systematic error, confounding error.
Week 4
1. What is the highest level of data findings? How is evidence appraised?
2. Can you describe the various levels of studies and how they are rated in terms of their
use for integration into practice?
3. What factors determine quality of care?
4. How is a website’s credibility determined?
