Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide Questions and Solutions
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Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide Questions and Solutions
What is the definition of community and what are the critical attributes?
"A group of people ...
often living in a defined geographical area,
who may share a common culture, values and norms, and
are arranged in a social structure acc...
what is distributive justice and give an example d
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What is the definition of community and what are the critical attributes? - answer "A
group of people ...
often living in a defined geographical area,
who may share a common culture, values and norms, and
are arranged in a social structure according to relationships which the community has
developed over a period of time.
People (community members), place (Geographic and time), and function (aims and
activities) are the critical attributes.
Define: Aggregate, Community, Family, and Group - answer Aggregate: Collection of
individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristic in common.
Community: Group of people that share something in common, such as geographic
location, interests, values.
Group: People who are located close together. Family: is considered parents or children
living together in a household
What is distributive justice and give an example - answer Distributive justice means
treating people fairly, and distributing resources and burdens equally among members
of a society
What is utilitarianism and give an example - answer Utilitarianism means doing the
greatest good for the greatest number - A practice centered around the principle of
doing the greatest good for the greatest number.
What are the concepts of social justice and health disparities? How are they different? -
answer Social Justice means ensuring that vulnerable groups are included in the
equitable distribution of resources. Health disparities are the inequalities that exist
among different people.
What are the main characteristics of a community partnership? - answer Awareness,
flexibility, and negotiated distribution of power
What is the difference between primary and secondary data collection in the community;
give an example of each. - answer Primary data collection: using informant
interviews, focus groups, and participant observation in order to collect information
about a community. EX: interviewing a school nurse to determine their role in the school
Secondary data collection: Published data about the community such as: census data
or minutes from a community meeting. The data is secondary because it is collected by
someone else.
, Describe the CDC's Healthy Communities Program. - answer The goal of the CDC's
Healthy communities program is the promotion of health through community
engagement and collaboration. This leads to addressing the health and quality of life for
all through a process that includes diverse citizen participation, mobilization of all
sections of the community, and community ownership.
What factors are critical to the CDCs healthy communities
program in the community? - answer Healthy cities and communities must be both
environmentally and socially sustainable through a strategy of primary care. healthy
public policy should involve collaboration at all levels. Supportive environments should
be created. Community participation will ensure the program can be sustained. Healthy
cities is based on the premise that when people have the opportunity to work out their
own locally defined health problems, they will find sustainable solutions to those
problems.
The role of the Public health nurse (PHN) in working with families and communities is
reflected in what kind of nursing action? - answer *Maybe the answer?*
Families: surveillance, disease and health event investigation, outreach, screening,
referral and follow-up, case management, delegated functions, health teaching,
counseling, and consultation.
Communities: Collaboration, community organizations building, advocacy, social
marketing, policy development and enforcement.
What is the healthy cities movement and what principles were used in its creation? -
answer Started in Europe in 1986. Focuses on mobilizing local resources and
political, professional, and community members to improve the health of the community.
Based on the premise that when people have the opportunity to work out their own
locally defined health problems, they will find sustainable solutions to those problems.
The principles of primary health care and health promotion guide the healthy
communities movement
What are the PHN assumptions? What do we mean in public health by populations? -
answer 1) defining PHN Practice: promoting and protecting the health of populations
using nursing, social, and public health sciences. Includes education in both public
health and nursing. Primary focus: health and disease prevention for entire population
2) PHN practice focuses on populations (at risk or of interest)
3) PHN practice considers the determinants of health
4) Priorities identified through community assessment
5) Emphasis on prevention
6) PHNs intervene at all levels of practice (community, systems, and individual)
7) PHN practice uses the nursing process (ADPIE) at all levels of practice
8) PHN uses a common set of interventions regardless of the setting (intervention
wheel)
9) PHN practice contributes to the achievement of the 10 essential services
10) PHN practice is grounded in a set of values and beliefs
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