NUR 426 CH Exam 1 Test Questions Answered Correctly.
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Course
NUR 426
Institution
NUR 426
Public health science - Answer The scientific foundation of public health practice and brings together other sciences including environmental science, epidemiology, biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and the social and behavioral sciences.
Public health goals - Answer prevent disease and ...
NUR 426 CH Exam 1 Test Questions
Answered Correctly.
Public health science - Answer The scientific foundation of public health practice and brings together
other sciences including environmental science, epidemiology, biostatistics, biomedical sciences, and the
social and behavioral sciences.
Public health goals - Answer prevent disease and disability and promote/protect the community as a
whole. It includes preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health, addressing environmental safety
and improvement
Core Functions of Public Health - Answer 1. Assessment
2. Policy Development
3. Assurance
Assessment - Answer the systematic collection, analysis and monitoring of health problems and needs
Policy Development - Answer the use of scientific knowledge to develop a strategic approach to
improving the community's health
Assurance - Answer assuring constituents that public health agencies provide services necessary to
achieve agreed-upon goals. Assuring that essential community-oriented services are provided GL
10 essential public health services - Answer 1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community
health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
,7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
8. Assure competent public and personal health care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
Globalizaton - Answer the process of increasing economic, political and social independence and
integration as capital, goods, persons, concepts, images, ideas and values across state boundaries. With
globalization, there is also an emergence of CDs
Life expectancy - Answer The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given
current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years
a newborn infant can expect to live.
10 public health achievements - Answer 1. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard
2. Vaccination
3. Motor-vehicle safety
4. Safer workplaces
5. Control of infectious diseases
6. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke
7. Safer and healthier foods
8. Healthier mothers and babies
9. Family planning
10. Fluoridation of drinking water
Population - Answer mass of people that make up a definable unit to which measurements pertained
Health - Answer A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; not merely the absence of
disease or infirmary
, Aggregate - Answer individual units brought together into a whole or sum of individuals (synonymous
with population)
Community - Answer group of individuals living within the same geographical area or those who share
another common denominator. You recognize yourself as part of a community but not as a population.
Population-Focused Nursing - Answer nursing practice that concentrates upon specific groups of
people, focusing on health promotion and disease prevention, regardless of geographic location (ex.
individuals without health insurance)
2. Work to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of individuals
3. Recognize that the client is a partner in health
Determinants of Health - Answer the range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors
that influence health status
Diversity - Answer groups and individuals differ in relation to culture, ethnicity and race
Culture - Answer the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social
group
Ethnicity - Answer Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a
product of common heredity and cultural traditions. (more focused on culture)
Race - Answer a categorization of humans based on skin color and other physical characteristics
Cultural competency - Answer the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care
to diverse populations
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