Question

question 4
match the word or phrase with the most appropriate definition.

• virus
• surveillance
• mortality
• morbidity
• ppe
• syndromic surveillance

a. personal protective equipment
b. uses pooled emergency department data from participating alaska facilities.
c. the frequency and rate of deaths within a specific population or due to a particular disease or condition.
d. infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism
e. researchers and public health officials identify, locate, count, and track a particular disease or other condition.
f. the state of being diseased or unhealthy.
question 5
clinicians may no longer submit respiratory specimens from patients to the alaska state virology laboratory for testing.
true
false

Explanation:

• Virus: A virus is an infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
• Surveillance: It involves researchers and public - health officials identifying, locating, counting, and tracking a particular disease or other condition.
• Mortality: Refers to the frequency and rate of deaths within a specific population or due to a particular disease or condition.
• Morbidity: Signifies the state of being diseased or unhealthy.
• PPE: Stands for personal protective equipment.
• Syndromic surveillance: Uses pooled emergency department data from participating Alaska facilities.

For Question 5, without further context, we assume there is no such restriction on clinicians submitting specimens, so the answer is False.

Answer:

• Virus: D. infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism
• Surveillance: E. researchers and public health officials identify, locate, count, and track a particular disease or other condition.
• Mortality: C. the frequency and rate of deaths within a specific population or due to a particular disease or condition.
• Morbidity: F. the state of being diseased or unhealthy.
• PPE: A. personal protective equipment
• Syndromic surveillance: B. uses pooled emergency department data from participating Alaska facilities.
• Question 5: False