Community Health Nursing Exam #1 | Practice Questions and
Answers 2026/2027
community - Ans✅✅✅ a group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests.
geopolitical community - Ans✅✅✅ a type of community that is formed by human or natural
boundaries.
a specific area possessing geographic boundaries and sharing the same governing structure.
*could also include people who work within the community
phenomenological community - Ans✅✅✅ a type of community that is formed because its members
have a common interest, experience or a feeling of belonging.
boundaries are less well defined, members decide what is meaningful to them
3 critical attributes of a community - Ans✅✅✅ people
place
function/interaction pattern
communities of solution - Ans✅✅✅ this type of community is formed by an aggregate specifically to
address health concerns within a particular area. It is composed of persons not only from the area of
need but also members of neighboring communities with a vested interest.
3 characteristics of Community health - Ans✅✅✅ 1. Status dimension (physical, social, emotional)
2. Structural dimension (services and resources)
3. Process dimension (effective community function)
Community health - Ans✅✅✅ is a synthesis of the status (what do they look like), structure (are
there services to deal with the issues), process (how effective are they- do they require outside help?)
, 4 healthy people 2020 goals - Ans✅✅✅ 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
epidemiological community assessment model - Ans✅✅✅ -this community assessment model has
the focus of Community health.
-This model examines factors that affect the health of the community such as: Biological, environmental,
lifestyle/consumption/recreation patterns, access to the health care system
-this model looks at morbidity and mortality data
-this model guides the development of programs targeted at specific aggregates
(particularly important are at-risk or vulnerable populations)
2 main reasons for community assessment - Ans✅✅✅ -to gain information and clarify the need for
change
-to empower those responsible in the context of that change
community as partner framework - Ans✅✅✅ -this framework for community assessment views
people as central members of the community
-the parts of the community that interact with members of the community:
physical environment, health and social service, economy, transportation and safety, politics and
government, communication, education, recreation
(wheel representing a core surrounded by the 8 subsystems listed above)
coalition - Ans✅✅✅ a group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working
together to improve community health status or to solve a specific community health problem
stakeholder - Ans✅✅✅ an individual, organization, or group that has an interest in a specific
community health issue or the outcome of a community-level intervention
Answers 2026/2027
community - Ans✅✅✅ a group of people sharing common interests, needs, resources, and
environment; an interrelating and interacting group of people with shared needs and interests.
geopolitical community - Ans✅✅✅ a type of community that is formed by human or natural
boundaries.
a specific area possessing geographic boundaries and sharing the same governing structure.
*could also include people who work within the community
phenomenological community - Ans✅✅✅ a type of community that is formed because its members
have a common interest, experience or a feeling of belonging.
boundaries are less well defined, members decide what is meaningful to them
3 critical attributes of a community - Ans✅✅✅ people
place
function/interaction pattern
communities of solution - Ans✅✅✅ this type of community is formed by an aggregate specifically to
address health concerns within a particular area. It is composed of persons not only from the area of
need but also members of neighboring communities with a vested interest.
3 characteristics of Community health - Ans✅✅✅ 1. Status dimension (physical, social, emotional)
2. Structural dimension (services and resources)
3. Process dimension (effective community function)
Community health - Ans✅✅✅ is a synthesis of the status (what do they look like), structure (are
there services to deal with the issues), process (how effective are they- do they require outside help?)
, 4 healthy people 2020 goals - Ans✅✅✅ 1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
epidemiological community assessment model - Ans✅✅✅ -this community assessment model has
the focus of Community health.
-This model examines factors that affect the health of the community such as: Biological, environmental,
lifestyle/consumption/recreation patterns, access to the health care system
-this model looks at morbidity and mortality data
-this model guides the development of programs targeted at specific aggregates
(particularly important are at-risk or vulnerable populations)
2 main reasons for community assessment - Ans✅✅✅ -to gain information and clarify the need for
change
-to empower those responsible in the context of that change
community as partner framework - Ans✅✅✅ -this framework for community assessment views
people as central members of the community
-the parts of the community that interact with members of the community:
physical environment, health and social service, economy, transportation and safety, politics and
government, communication, education, recreation
(wheel representing a core surrounded by the 8 subsystems listed above)
coalition - Ans✅✅✅ a group of consumers, health professionals, policy makers, and others working
together to improve community health status or to solve a specific community health problem
stakeholder - Ans✅✅✅ an individual, organization, or group that has an interest in a specific
community health issue or the outcome of a community-level intervention
