Community Health Test #1 Questions and Answers
What are the core public health functions?
Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
Assessment
1. Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems (e.g. community health profile, vital statistics, and health status).
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Community Health Test #1 Questions
and Answers
What are the *core public health functions*? - answer Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
Assessment - answer 1. *Monitor* health status to identify and solve community
health problems (e.g. community health profile, vital statistics, and health status).
2. *Diagnose and investigate* health problems and health hazards in the community
(e.g. epidemiology surveillance systems, laboratory support).
Policy Development - answer 3. *Inform, educate and empower* people about health
issues (e.g. health promotion and social marketing).
4. *Mobilize* community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems
(e.g. convening and facilitating community groups to promote health).
5. *Develop policies* and plans that support individual and community health efforts
(e.g. leadership development and health system planning).
Assurance - answer 6. *Enforce laws* and regulations that protect health and ensure
safety (e.g. enforcement of sanitary codes to ensure safety of environment).
7. *Link* people to needed personal health services and ensure the provision of health
care when otherwise unavailable (services that increase access to health care).
8. *Assure* competent public and personal health care workforce (e.g. education and
training for all public health care providers).
9. *Evaluate* effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population based
health services (e.g. continuous evaluation of public health programs).
10. *Research* for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems (e.g. links
with academic institutions and capacity for epidemiological and economic analyses.
1. Establishment of the Henry Street Settlement and nursing health services in New
York are accomplishments attributed to the founder of public health nursing:
A. Mary Breckenridge
B. Florence Nightingale
C. John Snow
D. Lillian Wald - answer D. Lillian Wald
2. T=A/F=B: The vision of Public health is the tenet greatest good to the greatest
number. - answer True
, 3. A community health action that focuses on reducing frequency and severity of
asthma attacks in inner-city children by instituting a law requiring local incinerators to in-
stall particulate matter filters is an example of:
A. Primary care
B. Risk management
C. Secondary prevention
D. Systems level intervention - answer D. Systems level intervention
4. A community is best described as?
A. A group of people who share at least one thing in common.
B. A group of people with something in common who have relationships and may share
a common goal [function] or physical boundaries
C. People who are not connected by any social or physical factors
D. People who do not interact with each other. - answer B. A group of people with
something in common who have relationships and may share a common goal
5. An important difference between *primary care* and *primary health care* is that
primary care focuses on which of the following?
A. Primary care focuses on professionals trying to cure a problem, whereas primary
health care focuses on the person's self-management to avoid health problems
(prevention and health promotion)
B. Primary care focuses on the whole community, whereas primary health care focuses
on the individual's problems needing treatment
C. Primary care focuses on a multidisciplinary approach, whereas primary health care
focuses on the medical approach to problem resolution. - answer A. Primary care
focuses on professionals trying to cure a problem, whereas primary health care focuses
on the person's self-management to avoid health problems (prevention and health
promotion)
6. T=A / F=B: The most important advances in the last century in the US that improved
health are those that concern clean water, housing, and food safety. - answer True
7. The core functions of public health are:
A. Assessment, policy development, assurance
B. Assessment, health promotion, evidence based practice
C. Policy development, private insurance provision, illness prevention - answer A.
Assessment, policy development, assurance
8. Public health theory includes which of the following:
A. Systems, nursing theory, and public health
B. Nursing theory only
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