vulnerable populations, rural & migrant,
poverty & homelessness (week 3)
goals of healthy people 2030 - correct answer ✔✔- Improve health of ALL Americans
- Improve health equity/eliminate disparity
- Promote quality of life and healthy behaviors
vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to an
adverse effect
- results from the interaction of internal and external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to
poor health
vulnerable populations - correct answer ✔✔those groups w increased risk for adverse health outcomes
- more likely than the general population to suffer from health disparities
health disparities - correct answer ✔✔the wide variations in health services and health status among
certain population groups
vulnerable populations are more likely to develop - correct answer ✔✔health problems as a result of
exposure to risk or to have worse outcomes from those health problems than the population as a whole
- more sensitive to risk factors because they are often exposed to cumulative risk factors
- more likely to suffer from health disparities
vulnerability results from the combined effects of - correct answer ✔✔limited physical, environmental,
personal resources, and biophysical resources
factors that contribute to vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔- Economic status: poverty & lack of health
insurance
- Education
, - Environmental factors: access to health care
- Nutrition
- Stress
- Prejudice
- Age
- Changes in normal physiology
cycle to vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔when one problem is solved, another quickly emerges
- leads to feelings of hopelessness
nursing approaches to care in the community trend toward - correct answer ✔✔providing more
comprehensive, family-centered services when treating vulnerable population groups; family-centered
"one-stop" services
- advocacy
- social justice
- culturally and linguistically appropriate HC
case management is very beneficial for caring for - correct answer ✔✔vulnerable populations
levels of prevention - correct answer ✔✔- primary: flu vaccines
- secondary: TB screening
- tertiary: therapy group for severely mentally ill adults
assessment should include client evaluation of: - correct answer ✔✔- Socioeconomic resources
- Preventive health needs
- Congenital and genetic predisposition to illness
- Amount of stress
- Living environment and neighborhood surroundings
poverty & homelessness (week 3)
goals of healthy people 2030 - correct answer ✔✔- Improve health of ALL Americans
- Improve health equity/eliminate disparity
- Promote quality of life and healthy behaviors
vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔susceptibility to actual or potential stressors that may lead to an
adverse effect
- results from the interaction of internal and external factors that cause a person to be susceptible to
poor health
vulnerable populations - correct answer ✔✔those groups w increased risk for adverse health outcomes
- more likely than the general population to suffer from health disparities
health disparities - correct answer ✔✔the wide variations in health services and health status among
certain population groups
vulnerable populations are more likely to develop - correct answer ✔✔health problems as a result of
exposure to risk or to have worse outcomes from those health problems than the population as a whole
- more sensitive to risk factors because they are often exposed to cumulative risk factors
- more likely to suffer from health disparities
vulnerability results from the combined effects of - correct answer ✔✔limited physical, environmental,
personal resources, and biophysical resources
factors that contribute to vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔- Economic status: poverty & lack of health
insurance
- Education
, - Environmental factors: access to health care
- Nutrition
- Stress
- Prejudice
- Age
- Changes in normal physiology
cycle to vulnerability - correct answer ✔✔when one problem is solved, another quickly emerges
- leads to feelings of hopelessness
nursing approaches to care in the community trend toward - correct answer ✔✔providing more
comprehensive, family-centered services when treating vulnerable population groups; family-centered
"one-stop" services
- advocacy
- social justice
- culturally and linguistically appropriate HC
case management is very beneficial for caring for - correct answer ✔✔vulnerable populations
levels of prevention - correct answer ✔✔- primary: flu vaccines
- secondary: TB screening
- tertiary: therapy group for severely mentally ill adults
assessment should include client evaluation of: - correct answer ✔✔- Socioeconomic resources
- Preventive health needs
- Congenital and genetic predisposition to illness
- Amount of stress
- Living environment and neighborhood surroundings
