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Public Health and Nursing Practice &Optimizing Population Health
The Science of Public Health - ANS-Provides nurses with skill and knowledge to:
-Answer questions related to the health of
•Individuals
•Populations
•Communities
Understand risk and protective factors
Develop interventions for individuals, populations, and communities, both locally and
from a global perspective
Issel:
- need to be informed or you are endangered
- individuals do not achieve health at the individual level through uniformed,
individualistic actions.. rather -->
- individual health occurs within the context of population and environment surrounding
the individual
Public health nursing - ANS-The practice of promoting and protecting the health of
populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences
public health nurses: concerned with population
community nurses: concerned with individuals
What Is Public Health? - ANS-not just nursing* (environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences)
•Science and art of preventing disease
•Prolonging life
•Promotion of health
•Environmental safety and improvement
•Improvement of the standard of living
•Maintenance of health
, •Improving health for all citizens, regardless of ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, and
gender bias
Public Health Achievements: Improvements in Life Expectancy - ANS-Figure 1-6 Life
expectancy in the United States, 2001 to 2050, for males by race. (Hispanic males,
white males, black males)
Figure 1-7 Life expectancy in the United States, 2001 to 2050, for females by race.
pg.18: top safety things
Top 10 Public Health Achievements - ANS-1. immunizations
2. motor vehicle safety
3. workplace safety
4. control of communicable diseases
5. decline in deaths from health disease and stroke
6. safer and healthier foods
7. healthier mothers and babies
8. family planning
9. fluoridation of drinking water
10. tobacco as a health hazard
What Is Public Health? IOM - ANS-According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
-Three core functions
•Assessment
•Policy development
•Assurance
Assessment*** - ANS-focuses on the systematic collection, analysis, and monitoring of
health problems and needs
Policy development*** - ANS-refers to using scientific knowledge to develop
comprehensive public health policies
Assurance*** - ANS-relates to assuring constituents that public health agencies provide
services necessary to achieve agreed-upon goals
making sure resources are available
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