Community Ch. 1 Questions and Answers
promoting and protecting the health of the population using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences.
Community health nursing/ Public health nursing
How is public health nursing different from community health nursing?
Public health...
Community Ch. 1 Questions and
Answers
promoting and protecting the health of the population using knowledge from nursing,
social, and public health sciences. - answer Community health nursing/ Public health
nursing
How is public health nursing different from community health nursing? - answer
Public health has a larger focus, always focused on the population.
public health nursing is _________ focused? - answer preventative
Fixing the base of the problem in hopes of preventing larger issues down the road -
answer upstream thinking
Focus of practice is on the community as a ______ - answer whole
There has been a recent shift to _______ and improve the health of americans - answer
protect
Why a renewed interest in public health and population focused health care in the US?
(3) - answer 1. Patient protection and affordable care act
2.prevention emphasis
3. IOM report 2012
How would public health nursing change if more people were insured? - answer they
could refocus on community, population-focused promotion and PREVENTION
IOM report in 2012 put emphasis on 2 things - answer funding public health services
and population- based prevention
Although populations have historically been the focus of public health practice,
specifically defined populations are becoming a focus of the "business": ________ care
- answer managed care
there has been a dramatic in crease in ______ ______ since 1900a - answer life
expectancy
We now have _______ based prevention programs - answer population based
Potential to prevent ___% of early deaths in the US while medical treatment is only
_____% - answer prevent 70%
medical treatment is only 10%
, Has limited funding influenced its ability to be impactful? - answer no, still has
enormous impact
What is the vision of public health in america? - answer healthy people in healthy
communities
mission of public health in america (2) - answer 1. Promote physical and mental
health
2. Prevent disease, injury and disability
What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be
healthy - answer Public health
_________ focused: members who are free-living in the community as to those
institutionalized - answer population focused
community _______: concern for the connection between the health status of the
POPULATION and environment in which the population lives - answer community
oriented
What is the emphasis of public health? - answer Health promotion and disease
prevention
Community __________: nurse in the community that is working with an individual or
family - answer community based
In community health the focus is on _________ populations - answer vulnerable
What are the three core functions of public health? - answer Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
Systematically collecting data on the population, monitoring the populations health
status and makign information available about the health of the community - answer
assessment
3 steps to collecting data - answer 1. Gathering
2. Generation
3.Interpretation
Data that already exists. Ex. public statistics - answer Gathered data
Data collected that has does not yet exist - answer Generated data
List ways to generate data (5) - answer windshield survey
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