ENGAGING COMMUNITY HEALTH REVIEW EXAMS
ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔web of causation - ✔✔the combination of factors that lead to a problem
✔✔toxic agent - ✔✔poisonous substance in the environment
✔✔overpopulation - ✔✔exceeds ability of it's ecosystem to either support needs; 4
factors (starvation, disease, wars, aide from other countries)
✔✔air pollution - ✔✔high in industrial areas
✔✔radon - ✔✔odorless, colorless, causes cancer
✔✔lead poisoning - ✔✔affects CNS, old paint, toxic to developing brains
✔✔psychological hazards - ✔✔noise, overcrowding, lack of natural beauty
✔✔traditional nursing - ✔✔work as part of team, acute setting, with other professionals
✔✔public health nursing - ✔✔in the community, often alone, no monitors, labs, use non-
tangible skills like listening, assessing, planning
, ✔✔hospice - ✔✔concept of palliative care for terminally ill patients,
✔✔nurse role overpopulation - ✔✔teaching birth control, family planning, preventing
high risk pregnancies, sex education
✔✔vectors - ✔✔non-human, carry diseases such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, roaches,
fleas, rats, mice, and squirrels
✔✔motor vehicle accidents - ✔✔3 billion injuries and >42,000 deaths per year
✔✔healthy people 2030 environmental health - ✔✔Focuses: reduce toxic pollutants,
increase adults and aerobic activity, reduce risks from hazardous sites, reduce adults
doing no physical activity, safe drinking water, schools with policies for health,
technology use in healthcare, reduce exposures to chemicals and metals, increase
internet access
✔✔macroeconomic theory - ✔✔branch of economics that deals with the total or
aggregate of all individuals and organizations.; useful for providing a global perspective;
has led to abroad perspective on health care financing
✔✔microeconomic theory - ✔✔concerned with supply and demand
✔✔Chain of Causation - ✔✔factors involved in the development of a disease or injury,
which may be the targets of an intervention to prevent the disease or injury; includes an
agent, a host, and the environment; more linear than web of causation; not useful in
describing nonifectious diseases like cancer and diabetes
✔✔ Community types - ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
✔✔community of solution - ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems
that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution
✔✔common interest - ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them
together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
✔✔population - ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
✔✔aggregates - ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a
whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population;
communities and populations are types
ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔web of causation - ✔✔the combination of factors that lead to a problem
✔✔toxic agent - ✔✔poisonous substance in the environment
✔✔overpopulation - ✔✔exceeds ability of it's ecosystem to either support needs; 4
factors (starvation, disease, wars, aide from other countries)
✔✔air pollution - ✔✔high in industrial areas
✔✔radon - ✔✔odorless, colorless, causes cancer
✔✔lead poisoning - ✔✔affects CNS, old paint, toxic to developing brains
✔✔psychological hazards - ✔✔noise, overcrowding, lack of natural beauty
✔✔traditional nursing - ✔✔work as part of team, acute setting, with other professionals
✔✔public health nursing - ✔✔in the community, often alone, no monitors, labs, use non-
tangible skills like listening, assessing, planning
, ✔✔hospice - ✔✔concept of palliative care for terminally ill patients,
✔✔nurse role overpopulation - ✔✔teaching birth control, family planning, preventing
high risk pregnancies, sex education
✔✔vectors - ✔✔non-human, carry diseases such as mosquitoes, flies, ticks, roaches,
fleas, rats, mice, and squirrels
✔✔motor vehicle accidents - ✔✔3 billion injuries and >42,000 deaths per year
✔✔healthy people 2030 environmental health - ✔✔Focuses: reduce toxic pollutants,
increase adults and aerobic activity, reduce risks from hazardous sites, reduce adults
doing no physical activity, safe drinking water, schools with policies for health,
technology use in healthcare, reduce exposures to chemicals and metals, increase
internet access
✔✔macroeconomic theory - ✔✔branch of economics that deals with the total or
aggregate of all individuals and organizations.; useful for providing a global perspective;
has led to abroad perspective on health care financing
✔✔microeconomic theory - ✔✔concerned with supply and demand
✔✔Chain of Causation - ✔✔factors involved in the development of a disease or injury,
which may be the targets of an intervention to prevent the disease or injury; includes an
agent, a host, and the environment; more linear than web of causation; not useful in
describing nonifectious diseases like cancer and diabetes
✔✔ Community types - ✔✔geographic, common interest, community of solution
✔✔community of solution - ✔✔group of people who come together to solve problems
that affects all of them, ex: guidance counselors, counties working for water pollution
✔✔common interest - ✔✔collection of people with interest or goal that bind them
together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church groups, gay community
✔✔population - ✔✔all the people occupying an area, or all those who share one more
characteristic, may not necessarily interact
✔✔aggregates - ✔✔a mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a
whole and are loosely associated with each other, broader term then population;
communities and populations are types
