NURS 327 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% CORRECT!!
Core Functions of Public Health - ANSWER - Assessment
- policy development
- assurance
Downstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at individual and at one disease
Midstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at what organizations are out there
to help me achieve my goal (ex. housing conditions, employment and food security)
Upstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at environmental factors that
influence disease (ex. social status, income, racism, and exclusion)
Health - ANSWER state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Code of Ethics - ANSWER people have a right to basic necessities of life
Core Function 1: Assessment - ANSWER - systematic monitoring and data collection on
population's health
- diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards
- disseminate info to people
ALWAYS ETHICAL ISSUES
Core Function 2: Policy Development - ANSWER - use scientific knowledge base to
develop policies
- inform, educate,, and empower people about health
- mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
- ex. playground for childhood obesity
, Core Function 3: Assurance - ANSWER - ensuring that essential community health
services are available
- provide services
- ensure adequate workforce
- enforce laws
Clara Barton - ANSWER started the American Red Cross
Mary Breckinridge - ANSWER Started Frontier Nursing Services
Direct Services - ANSWER - delivered to an individual
- provided by personnel
- variety of settings
Indirect Services - ANSWER - not personally received by an individual
- health planning
- environmental inspections
- ex. expiration dates
Medicare - ANSWER - care for the elderly over 65, permanently disabled
- end stage renal failure
- does not cover long term custodial care (if longer than term plan then you are out of
luck)
- provides hospital and medical insurance
Medicaid - ANSWER - care for poor, children and pregnant women, and disabled
- will also pay for Medicare (does not come out of SS check)
- individual states have individual benefits
- provides financial assistance to states to pay for health care services
Medicare A - ANSWER - skilled nursing facility of care and care in hospital
- penalty goes away after 3 years, free for anyone who works for 10 (if less you have
prorated bill)
Medicare B - ANSWER - outpatient doctors visit and preventative services
- 20% penalty for delay as long as you have it, need proof of coverage in order to not use
B
100% CORRECT!!
Core Functions of Public Health - ANSWER - Assessment
- policy development
- assurance
Downstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at individual and at one disease
Midstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at what organizations are out there
to help me achieve my goal (ex. housing conditions, employment and food security)
Upstream Method of Intervention - ANSWER Looks at environmental factors that
influence disease (ex. social status, income, racism, and exclusion)
Health - ANSWER state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Code of Ethics - ANSWER people have a right to basic necessities of life
Core Function 1: Assessment - ANSWER - systematic monitoring and data collection on
population's health
- diagnose and investigate health problems/hazards
- disseminate info to people
ALWAYS ETHICAL ISSUES
Core Function 2: Policy Development - ANSWER - use scientific knowledge base to
develop policies
- inform, educate,, and empower people about health
- mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
- ex. playground for childhood obesity
, Core Function 3: Assurance - ANSWER - ensuring that essential community health
services are available
- provide services
- ensure adequate workforce
- enforce laws
Clara Barton - ANSWER started the American Red Cross
Mary Breckinridge - ANSWER Started Frontier Nursing Services
Direct Services - ANSWER - delivered to an individual
- provided by personnel
- variety of settings
Indirect Services - ANSWER - not personally received by an individual
- health planning
- environmental inspections
- ex. expiration dates
Medicare - ANSWER - care for the elderly over 65, permanently disabled
- end stage renal failure
- does not cover long term custodial care (if longer than term plan then you are out of
luck)
- provides hospital and medical insurance
Medicaid - ANSWER - care for poor, children and pregnant women, and disabled
- will also pay for Medicare (does not come out of SS check)
- individual states have individual benefits
- provides financial assistance to states to pay for health care services
Medicare A - ANSWER - skilled nursing facility of care and care in hospital
- penalty goes away after 3 years, free for anyone who works for 10 (if less you have
prorated bill)
Medicare B - ANSWER - outpatient doctors visit and preventative services
- 20% penalty for delay as long as you have it, need proof of coverage in order to not use
B
