Community Nursing Chapter 1 With Multiple Choices And Correct Answers 2024

A variety of health indicators are used by health providers, policy makers, and community health nurses to measure the health of the community. Indicators that illustrate the health status of a community and may be useful in analyzing health patterns over time include (Select all that apply.) A. morbidity. B. mortality. C. birth rates. D. life expectancy. E. cancer incidence rates. - correct answer--Correct Answer: a. morbidity, b. mortality, d. life expectancy Some of the more commonly reported health indicators used by health providers, policy makers, and community health nurses to measure the health of the community are life expectancy, infant mortality, age-adjusted death rates, and cancer incidence rates. Birth rates do not provide relative data to measure the health of a community. Disease prevention activities protect people from disease and the effects of disease. An example of primary disease prevention is A. teaching people with diabetes how to prevent complications. B. administering vaccines to children before kindergarten. C. checking the skin of farm workers for signs of skin cancer. D. identifying and testing individuals exposed to someone with tuberculosis. - correct answer--Correct Answer: B. administering vaccines to children before kindergarten. Primary prevention activities prevent a problem before it occurs; an immunization is given to prevent a disease before it occurs. Secondary prevention refers to early detection and prompt intervention during the period of early disease pathogenesis, such as checking the skin for signs of skin cancer or identifying and treating individuals who have been exposed to contagious diseases. Aims of tertiary prevention are to keep health problems from getting worse, reduce the effects of disease and injury, and restore individuals to their optimal level of functioning. Examples of tertiary prevention include teaching prevention of complications from disease or referring a patient with a stroke for rehabilitation. Early public health nurse Lillian Wald and her associates were successful in addressing health and disease in the immigrant community by A. supporting political activities to improve social and environmental conditions of immigrant families. B. administering bedside nursing care to immigrants and their families. C. teaching the immigrant family members to provide health care in the home.