NURS 4133 Community Exam #2 Questions With Complete Solutions

Oklahoma Baptist University NURS 4133 Community/Public Health Nursing Practice: Health for Families and Populations, by Frances A. Maurer and Claudia M. Smith, Fourth Edition Lecture Powerpoints environmental health correct answer: comprises those aspects of human health, including quality of life, that are determined by physical, chemical, biologic, social, and psychologic problems in the environment. It also refers to the theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can potentially affect adversely the health of present and future generations considering the environment as a predictor of health correct answer: -assess risks based on mediums in which they are contained -determine whether the health risk is from chemical, biologic, or radiologic exposure -attirubte the exposure to a setting or multiple settings -assess the vulnerability of individuals or populations -assess specific exposures to products that individuals/populations use extrapolation in environmental health correct answer: estimating the effect of an exposure on humans based on the effects on animals most common way in which relationships between chemical exposures and health risks are posited Florence Nightingale and environmental health correct answer: identified the need for a clean environment with five points: pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light new environmental concerns correct answer: effects of global warming increasing demands by population growth antibiotic-resistant strains of infectious diseases introduction of new technology, products, and chemicals when combined with lifestyle risks and stresses to create new problems environmental justice correct answer: refers to the disproportionately high exposures of low-income and minority populations to environmental health risks, such as air pollution, hazardous waste incinerators, toxic landfills, pesticides, lead exposure, and unsafe drinking water