Immersion.

IMMERSION
Health - CORRECT ANSWER-a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 25, Section 1 - CORRECT ANSWER-Everyone
has the right:
- to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family
- medical care, food, shelter, housing and necessary social services
- security in the event of unemployment
-sickness, disability, widowhood, old age

Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER-- science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life,
promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the
environment.
- control of communicable disease
- education of individual in personal hygiene

Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER-- organization of medical services for the early diagnosis
and preventive treatment of disease,
- development of social machineries to ensure adequate maintenance of health

1. Disease control
2. Injury prevention
3. Health protection
4. Healthy public policy including those in relation to environmental hazard in the workplace,
housing, food, water
5. Promotion of health and equiatable health gain - CORRECT ANSWER-Core business of
Public Health

1. Health situation monitoring and analysis
2. Epidemiological surveillance / disease prevention and control
3. Development of policies and planning in public health
4. Strategic management of health systems and services for population health gain
5. Regulation and enforcement to protect public health
6. Human resources development and planning in public health
7. Health promotion, social participation and empowerment
8. Ensuring the quality of personal and population based health services
9. Research, development and implementation of innovative public health solutions. -
CORRECT ANSWER-Function of Public Health

1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) Achieve universal primary education
3) Promote gender equality and empower women

, 4) Reduce child mortality
5) Improve maternal health
6) Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other diseases
7) Ensure environmental sustainability
8) Develop a global partnership for development - CORRECT ANSWER-8 Millennium
Development Goals

1. Improve hospitals and health facilities
2. Employ more health workers (doctors, nurses, and midwives)
3. Increase Phil health enrollment and improve Phil health benefits
5. Reduce maternal and infant deaths
5. Reduce non-communicable diseases
6. Reduce and prevent cancer areas
7. Lower the cost of medicines
8. Control dengue outbreaks
9. Reduce diarrhea outbreaks (gastroenteritis typhoid, and cholera)
10. Control the growing HIV-AIDS epidemic. - CORRECT ANSWER-Top 10 health agendas of
the Philippines

1. Income and social status
2. Education
3. Physical environment
4. Employment and working conditions
5. Social support networks
6. Culture
7. Genetics
8. Personal behavior and coping skills
9. Health services
10. Gender - CORRECT ANSWER-Determinants of Health

Public Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER-A special field of nursing that combines the skills
of nursing, public health, and some phases of social distance and functions as part of the total
public health program for the promotion of health, improvement of conditions in the social and
physical environment, rehabilitation of illness and disability

Public Health Nurse - CORRECT ANSWER-- uses their nursing skills in the application of public
health functions and social assistance designed to promote health and prevent diseases
- refers to the nurses in the local/national health departments or public schools whether their
official position title is PHNs or school nurse or a nurse

Community Health Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER-A service rendered by professional nurse
with communities, groups, families, individuals at home, in health center, in clinics, in schools for
the promotion of health, prevention of illness, care of the sick at home and rehabilitation