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9781719650250
nursing practice
christine l savage
public community health
caring for populations 3rd edition
community health and nursing practice
public community health and nursing practice

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Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice:
Caring for Populations 3rd Edition
by Christine L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete

,TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management

,Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice

Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
factors from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population

2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health
include disease prevention, promoting health, control of
communicable infections,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care

, 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations

3. If the international medical community was working to contain
several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.

4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and
Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society carries
out to collectively supportthe optimum conditions for public health.
Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment

, 3. Policy development
4. Assurance

5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both
noncommunicable (chronic) and communicable disease (NCD). The
most pressing issue froma public health perspective based on this
increase is:
1. An increased demand for long-term care
2. An increased need for further research
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages
related toaging
4. Decreased cost of medications.

6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help
herself and other local practitioners understand health in
populations. She understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead
ecological model assumes that:
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus
multiplestrategies are needed.
2. A population and environmental approach is essential.
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial.
4. All of the above.

,7. The PHN completed a community assessment and found that the
obesity rate in one of the neighborhoods was higher than the other
neighborhoods in the county. She suspects that this is partially due to
limited access to full-service grocery stores and a lack of dedicated safe
venues for exercise.
Assuming her conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
determinants of health would these issues within the community fall
into?
1. Upstream determinants of health
2. Downstream determinants of health
3. Behavioral determinants of health
4. Genetic determinants of health

8. Two PHNs working in a large urban community notice that community
members are rarely engaged in the process of planning interventions
aimedat addressing a particular increase in a specific disease in the
community.
For their next project, they include community collaboration as an
essentialcomponent of the development, implementation, and
evaluation of the program. When questioned by others, they report
that there is evidence thatcommunity collaboration increases
effectiveness and productivity, empowers the participants,
strengthens social engagement, and .
1. Decreases disease rates

,2. Ensures accountability

, 3. Increases the availability of treatment for the targeted disease
4. Improves screening rates

9. Which one of the following scenarios is not an example of
communitycollaboration?
1. Local service groups working to organize disaster relief
fortornado victims
2. A city council passing an ordinance to stop smoking
inrestaurants
3. An advocacy group working with the local
churches to improve health care for the indigent
with mental healthdisorders
4. A school working with the local health department to
start aschool clinic

10. Which layer of government is primarily responsible for issuing
quarantinesduring a communicable disease outbreak?
1. Federal
2. State
3. Local
4. All of the above

,11. As a PHN in a small local public health department, you understand that
based on federal mandates your public health department
routinely performs all but which of the following?
1. Surveillance of disease at the local level
2. Investigation of disease outbreaks
3. Licensing of local hospitals
4. Quarantine

12. The PHN recognizes that environmental science, epidemiology,
biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and form the foundational
subjectsof public health.
1. Economics
2. The humanities
3. Social and behavioral sciences
4. Anthropology

13. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an example of a
health promotion intervention is whereas a risk
reduction/health protection intervention is .

, 1. Conducting a health fair; funding a school exercise program
2. Giving a free exercise class; conducting a flu vaccine
outreachprogram
3. Providing flu medication free to older adults; a diet class
forteenagers
4. Offering a tour of a hospital; a relaxation technique class

14. From a health promotion perspective, how could an occupational health
nurse advise a company to encourage its employees to work towards
goodhealth?
1. Lower insurance premiums for employees who
demonstrategood health habits
2. Have employee exercise classes or discounted health
clubmemberships
3. Have incentives for healthy eating
4. All of the above

15. Diversity refers to all of but which of these concepts?
1. Race
2. Culture
3. Ethnicity

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