QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS AND
RATIONALES
◉ Community types. Answer: geographic, common interest,
community of solution
◉ community of solution. Answer: group of people who come
together to solve problems that affects all of them, ex: guidance
counselors, counties working for water pollution
◉ common interest. Answer: collection of people with interest or goal
that bind them together, ex: MADD, disabled community, church
groups, gay community
◉ population. Answer: all the people occupying an area, or all those
who share one more characteristic, may not necessarily interact
◉ aggregates. Answer: 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
◉ goal of community health nursing. Answer: health promotion,
disease prevention, and health protection
◉ promotion of health. Answer: health education, preventative care
services, healthy people 2030, raise levels of wellness for individuals,
families, populations and communities
, ◉ prevention of health problems. Answer: anticipating and averting
problems or discovering them as early as possible to minimize
potential disability and impairment
◉ primary prevention. Answer: to keep illness from occurring, hand
rails, immunizations
◉ secondary prevention. Answer: efforts to detect and treat existing
health problems. Screenings: htn, drug abuse, breast exam, DM test;
to intervene to control or eradicate before morbidity becomes severe
◉ tertiary prevention. Answer: attempts to reduce the extent and
severity of health problems so as to minimize disability and restore or
reserve function: rehab after CVA.
◉ tertiary prevention. Answer: someone that has an eating disorder,
following up with counseling
◉ treatment of disorders. Answer: focuses on illness by: direct
service, indirect service, development of programs to correct
unhealthy conditions
◉ evaluation. Answer: process by which the practice is analysis,
judged, and improved according to established goals and standards
◉ research. Answer: investigation to discover facts affecting
community health and community health practice, solve problems,
and explore improved methods of health science