Community Health Chapters 1-6
Exam|46 Questions and Answers
What is the focus of Public Health? - -1. Disease Prevention
2. Prolonging life
3. Promoting health and efficiency
- What are the 5 ways we promote health and efficiency in public health? - -
1. Control of communicable infection
2. Education
3. Organization of resources for early diagnosis and prevention
4. Sanitation of environment
5. Development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living
adequate for the maintenance of health.
- What are the core functions of PHN? - -Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
- How do you assess a community? - -Regular collection and analysis as well
as sharing information regarding health conditions, risk, and resources within
a community.
- What is policy development? - -Use of assessment data to develop policies
and direct resources to those policies
- What is assurance? - -Focuses on the availability of resources in a
community and the maintenance of those resources, including the ability of
public and private providers to respond to critical situations.
- What is a population? - -a group of people with similar personal or
environmental characteristics
- What is a subpopulation? - -Also called an aggregate, a group of people
with some common characteristics or concerns.
- What is a community? - -A group of people that interact with one another
and have a sense of unity based upon shared interests or characteristics that
may include geographical boundaries.
- What groups do PHNs work with? - -1. Individuals
2. Families
3. Groups or aggregates
4.Communities or populatations
Exam|46 Questions and Answers
What is the focus of Public Health? - -1. Disease Prevention
2. Prolonging life
3. Promoting health and efficiency
- What are the 5 ways we promote health and efficiency in public health? - -
1. Control of communicable infection
2. Education
3. Organization of resources for early diagnosis and prevention
4. Sanitation of environment
5. Development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living
adequate for the maintenance of health.
- What are the core functions of PHN? - -Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
- How do you assess a community? - -Regular collection and analysis as well
as sharing information regarding health conditions, risk, and resources within
a community.
- What is policy development? - -Use of assessment data to develop policies
and direct resources to those policies
- What is assurance? - -Focuses on the availability of resources in a
community and the maintenance of those resources, including the ability of
public and private providers to respond to critical situations.
- What is a population? - -a group of people with similar personal or
environmental characteristics
- What is a subpopulation? - -Also called an aggregate, a group of people
with some common characteristics or concerns.
- What is a community? - -A group of people that interact with one another
and have a sense of unity based upon shared interests or characteristics that
may include geographical boundaries.
- What groups do PHNs work with? - -1. Individuals
2. Families
3. Groups or aggregates
4.Communities or populatations
