COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW AND STUDY GUIDE
◉ What is system thinking very useful for?
Answer: Examining cause and effect relationships
◉ Regarding community health Nursing theories, what is used to
focus on interventions that promote health or prevent illness, as
opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an
individual becomes ill?
Answer: Upstream thinking
◉ Upstream thinking focuses on what type of interventions?
Answer: Interventions that promote health or prevents illness, as
opposed to medical treatment models that focus on care after an
individual becomes ill
◉ What theory highlights the relationship between an individual's
environment and health?
Answer: Nightingale's environmental theory
, ◉ Which nursing theory has a purpose to predict or explain health
behaviors?
Answer: Health belief model
◉ Which nursing theory complements the Health belief model?
Answer: Milio's framework for prevention
◉ Health believe model emphasizes change at what level in
comparison to Milio's framework for prevention?
Answer: Health belief model= individual
Milio's= community
◉ Which nursing theory identifies relationship between health
deficits and availability of health promoting resources?
Answer: Milio's framework for prevention
◉ Which nursing theory does not consider health risk as a factor
that provokes change?
Answer: Pender's Health Promotion Model
◉ Which nursing theory is similar to health belief model?
Answer: Pender's Health Promotion Model