COMMUNITY NUR 206 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026 | Study
Guide | A+
• Health Definition -✓✓Individual or group
Realize aspirations and satisfy needs
change or cope with the environment
• Community Definition -✓✓Group or collection of individuals
(people)
Interacting in social units (place)
Sharing common interests, characteristics, values, and goals (social
interactions/common characteristics, interests, or goals)
-geopolitical
-phenomenological
• Population Definition -✓✓Group of people
common personal or environmental characteristics
• Aggregates Definition -✓✓Subgroups or sub-populations
Some common characteristics or concerns
• Determinants of Health and indicators -✓✓Determinants of health:
biology and genetics, individual behaviors, social environment, physical
environment, health services
Statistics: life expectancy, mortality, morbidity
• Public health and community health -✓✓Public Health Defined:
science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting
health and efficiency through organized community (public) effort
Public Health Core Functions: assessment, policy development,
assurance
, Community Health: extends public health to include private efforts
(AHA, red cross)
• Health Promotion -✓✓Levels of prevention- lots of focus on this in
community health- ATI exams, NCLEX, course exams
• Healthy People 2020 -✓✓National Prevention Initiative
4th version
42 topic areas
New and updated objectives
• Nursing -✓✓Public health- technical nursing, interpersonal, analytical
and organizational skills applied in concert with other persons engaged
in health care applied to problems of health as they affect the community
Community health- used inter-connectedly with public health nursing in
this class/textbook
Community-based nursing- application of nursing process in caring for
individuals, families and groups where they live work or go to school as
they move through the health care system
• Population focused -✓✓Concentrates on specific groups of people
Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention regardless of
geographic location
EBP to targeted groups with similar needs to improve outcomes
Focuses on the needs of many different groups within a population
• Public health nursing core competencies -✓✓Analytic assessment,
policy development/program planning, communication, cultural
competency, community dimensions of practice, public health science,
financial planning and management, leadership and systems thinking
• Public Health Intervention Wheel -✓✓Major elements: population
focused, three levels of practice identifies and defines 17 public health
interventions
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026 | Study
Guide | A+
• Health Definition -✓✓Individual or group
Realize aspirations and satisfy needs
change or cope with the environment
• Community Definition -✓✓Group or collection of individuals
(people)
Interacting in social units (place)
Sharing common interests, characteristics, values, and goals (social
interactions/common characteristics, interests, or goals)
-geopolitical
-phenomenological
• Population Definition -✓✓Group of people
common personal or environmental characteristics
• Aggregates Definition -✓✓Subgroups or sub-populations
Some common characteristics or concerns
• Determinants of Health and indicators -✓✓Determinants of health:
biology and genetics, individual behaviors, social environment, physical
environment, health services
Statistics: life expectancy, mortality, morbidity
• Public health and community health -✓✓Public Health Defined:
science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting
health and efficiency through organized community (public) effort
Public Health Core Functions: assessment, policy development,
assurance
, Community Health: extends public health to include private efforts
(AHA, red cross)
• Health Promotion -✓✓Levels of prevention- lots of focus on this in
community health- ATI exams, NCLEX, course exams
• Healthy People 2020 -✓✓National Prevention Initiative
4th version
42 topic areas
New and updated objectives
• Nursing -✓✓Public health- technical nursing, interpersonal, analytical
and organizational skills applied in concert with other persons engaged
in health care applied to problems of health as they affect the community
Community health- used inter-connectedly with public health nursing in
this class/textbook
Community-based nursing- application of nursing process in caring for
individuals, families and groups where they live work or go to school as
they move through the health care system
• Population focused -✓✓Concentrates on specific groups of people
Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention regardless of
geographic location
EBP to targeted groups with similar needs to improve outcomes
Focuses on the needs of many different groups within a population
• Public health nursing core competencies -✓✓Analytic assessment,
policy development/program planning, communication, cultural
competency, community dimensions of practice, public health science,
financial planning and management, leadership and systems thinking
• Public Health Intervention Wheel -✓✓Major elements: population
focused, three levels of practice identifies and defines 17 public health
interventions
