COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POPULATION
FOCUSED NURSING UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● assessment
Answer: - systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the
health of the community
●● public health core functions
Answer: - assessment, policy development, and assurance
●● assurance
Answer: - focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to be
sure that activities are appropriately carried out to meet public health
goals and plans
●● community-oriented care
Answer: - emphasize health protection, maintenance, and promotion and
disease prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients
●● primary goal of public health
Answer: - the prevention of disease and disability
,●● public health/population-focused practice
Answer: - Core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health
protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a population
●● assessment phase of a community's health status
Answer: - collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
- evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of
the population
- questioning the availability of health services to the community
●● The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
Answer: - federal agency most heavily involved with the health and
welfare concerns of U.S. citizens
●● primary health care (PHC)
Answer: - includes a comprehensive range of services including public
health; prevention; and diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services
- essential care made universally accessible to individuals and families
in a community
●● Health People 2020
Answer: - Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease,
disability, injury, and premature death
, - Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of
all groups
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for
all
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
across all life stages
●● Department of Agriculture (DOA)
Answer: - involved in health care primarily through administering the
Food and Nutrition Service, which oversees a variety of food assistance
activities in collaboration with state and local government welfare
agencies to provide food stamps to needy persons to increase their food
purchasing power, as well as school breakfast and lunch programs,
grants to states for nutrition education training, and WIC, a supplemental
food program for women, infants, and children
●● Primary prevention
Answer: - Type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent
disease from the beginning; involves health promotion and education.
●● Secondary prevention
Answer: - Intervention that seeks to detect disease by screening and
providing health care early in its progression (early pathogenesis) before
clinical signs and symptoms become apparent in order to make an early
diagnosis and begin treatment.
FOCUSED NURSING UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
●● assessment
Answer: - systematic data collection on the population, monitoring the
population's health status, and making information available about the
health of the community
●● public health core functions
Answer: - assessment, policy development, and assurance
●● assurance
Answer: - focuses on the responsibility of public health agencies to be
sure that activities are appropriately carried out to meet public health
goals and plans
●● community-oriented care
Answer: - emphasize health protection, maintenance, and promotion and
disease prevention, as well as self-reliance among clients
●● primary goal of public health
Answer: - the prevention of disease and disability
,●● public health/population-focused practice
Answer: - Core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health
protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a population
●● assessment phase of a community's health status
Answer: - collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information
- evaluating the social, economic, and environmental characteristics of
the population
- questioning the availability of health services to the community
●● The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
Answer: - federal agency most heavily involved with the health and
welfare concerns of U.S. citizens
●● primary health care (PHC)
Answer: - includes a comprehensive range of services including public
health; prevention; and diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services
- essential care made universally accessible to individuals and families
in a community
●● Health People 2020
Answer: - Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease,
disability, injury, and premature death
, - Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of
all groups
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for
all
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors
across all life stages
●● Department of Agriculture (DOA)
Answer: - involved in health care primarily through administering the
Food and Nutrition Service, which oversees a variety of food assistance
activities in collaboration with state and local government welfare
agencies to provide food stamps to needy persons to increase their food
purchasing power, as well as school breakfast and lunch programs,
grants to states for nutrition education training, and WIC, a supplemental
food program for women, infants, and children
●● Primary prevention
Answer: - Type of intervention that seeks to promote health and prevent
disease from the beginning; involves health promotion and education.
●● Secondary prevention
Answer: - Intervention that seeks to detect disease by screening and
providing health care early in its progression (early pathogenesis) before
clinical signs and symptoms become apparent in order to make an early
diagnosis and begin treatment.
