Population Health Focus Care Exam 1 Study Guide LATEST UPDATE 2021

Population Health Focus Care Exam 1 Study Guide LATEST UPDATE 2021 ,,,,,,,,,,,,..............TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS WITH THE GREATEST IMPACT ON INCREASING LIFE EXPECTANCY Sanitation, epidemiology and nutrition are concepts that have had the greatest impact on increasing life expectancy. Public health itself and population focused care have extended longevity by preventing epidemics and the spread of disease, protecting against environmental hazards, preventing injuries, promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors, responding to disasters and assisting communities in recovery, and assuring the quality and accessibility of health services to those within a community. Types of interventions include vaccines, motor vehicle safety, safer and healthier foods, tobacco cessation, workplace safety, maternal and fetal health, and decreasing cardiovascular, heart, and stroke related deaths. LILLIAN WALD AND MARY BRECKENRIDGE’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC HEALTH Each nurse placed an emphasis on primary prevention. The history of health care and nursing provides examples of the advocacy of nursing in challenging settings with an unknown future. By considering the lessons of the past, nurses today and those in the future can find a profession well prepared to provide care with direction needed to focus of providing the full range of quality, cost effective services with promotion of health. These nurses contributed to improving health care access to all and reducing health care costs. Success of public health nursing depends on listening, being patient, providing accurate and sound info, and respecting experiences of community members. Lillian Wald pioneered public health by placing....................continued*