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Chapter One
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the related
underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting
health, control of communicable infections,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earlydiagnosis and
preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the
World Health Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health,
that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe optimum conditions for
public health. Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
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Health and Nursing Practice: Caring
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Chapter One
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the related
underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting
health, control of communicable infections,and _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the earlydiagnosis and
preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would look to the
World Health Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health,
that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe optimum conditions for
public health. Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
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