The community health nurse is investigating how many cases of STDs have occurred in the local high school during the past month. Which approach is the nurse applying in the investigative process?

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Descriptive epidemiology approach seeks to observe and describe patterns of health-related conditions that occur naturally in a population (e.g., occurrence of STDs in a given population) . Experimental epidemiology follows and builds on information gathered from descriptive and analytic approaches. Analytic epidemiology seeks to identify associations between a particular human disease or health problem and its possible causes. Prevalence studies examine causal factors, but a prevalence study always looks at factors from the same point in time and in the same population and falls under analytical epidemiology.

The Community Health Nurse Is Investigating How Many Cases of STDs