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Test Bank - Community Health Nursing, A Canadian
Perspective, 4th, 5th Edition Stamler

What is perspective? - ANSWER: Technique and representation in which objects seem to have depth
and distance

What is community based nursing? - ANSWER: setting in the community rather than
hospital/institution that delivers care to sick individuals where they live, work, go to school

Emphasis of community-based nursing practice - ANSWER: it is acute and chronic care and it is
comprehensive, coordinated continuous services

Who delivers community based nursing practice - ANSWER: generalists or specialists

What is community health - ANSWER: identification of needs and the protection and improvement of
collective health within a geographically defined area

What is public health? - ANSWER: Activities that society undertake to assure the conditions in which
people can be healthy

PH and CH nursing practice is the combination of what? - ANSWER: nursing and public heath

How does PH and CH nursing practice promote and preserve healthy populations - ANSWER: Through
delivery of personal health care services to individuals, families and groups/aggregates

What is the focus of care practice in PH and CH nursing practice? - ANSWER: Health of individuals,
families, and groups
the effect of their health status on the health of the whole community

6 components of community health practice - ANSWER: promotion of health
prevention of health problems
treatment of disorders
rehabilitation
evaluation
research

What is the difference between population and aggregate? - ANSWER: A population is the client or
unit of care. An aggregate is form or group into a class or cluster

Are populations and aggregates the same as community? - ANSWER: Yes

What are the components of a concept of community? - ANSWER: People
common interests or characteristics
sense of unity or belonging

What are examples of communities? - ANSWER:

T/F: Populations and communities are terms that can be used interchangeably. - ANSWER: False.

How does a population differ from a community? - ANSWER: the individuals of the population do not
necessarily share a sense of belonging to that group.

, How does a community differ from a population? - ANSWER: involve people who chose to interact
with one another because of common interests, characteristics, or goals

Three things that make up the concept of health? - ANSWER: Health
Wellness
Illness

What is health? - ANSWER: holistic state of well-being, including soundness mind, body, and spirit

What is wellness? - ANSWER: health plus the capacity to develop one's potential, leading to a fulfilling
and productive life

What is illness - ANSWER: State of being relatively unhealthy

a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and
infirmity - ANSWER: Health

Health is - ANSWER: viewed differently across cultures
desirable but ambiguous

What affects health? - ANSWER: anything that affects the complete physical, mental, and social well
being of an individual

You want people to live long and healthy lives - ANSWER:

Determinants of health - ANSWER: physical environment, health services, social
environment,individual behavior, biology and genetics

Disparities of health - ANSWER: race, gender, geography, abilities

What is a year of potential life lost? - ANSWER: Numerical difference between an end-point age
(usually about age 75) and the age a person died
-it is an important measure of premature mortality

Example of year of potential life lost. - ANSWER: 75 years: end point age
54 years: age of death
75-54: 21 years of potential life lost

What is a major public health goal - ANSWER: preventing deaths among younger persons

What is health promotion? - ANSWER: Primary preventive measures directed toward well persons in
the pre-pathogenesis period to promote ... health & provide specific protection from disease

How to prevent health problems - ANSWER: Anticipating and averting problems or identifying them as
early as possible to minimize disability and impairment

Three levels to preventing health problems - ANSWER: Primary: keep illness or injury from occurring
Secondary: detect and treat existing disease
Tertiary: Reduce the severity of a health problem, minimize disability, and restore or preserve
function

What is health protection? - ANSWER: behaviors that decrease the probability of becoming ill

What is health promotion? - ANSWER: behaviors that increase the well-being of either an individual or
a group

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