NUR 258: Exam 1 with answers
Describes the impact of different types of public health
interventions and provides a framework to improve health. Focus
on lower levels of the pyramid tends to be more effective because it
reaches broader segments of society and requires less individual
effort. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health Impact Pyramid
Describes the scope of public health nursing practice by type of
intervention and level of practice (systems, community,
individual/family), rather than by the more traditional "site" of
service. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Public Health Nursing
Intervention Wheel
Suggests that people's beliefs about health problems, perceived
benefits of action and barriers to action, and self-efficacy explain
engagement (or lack of engagement) in health-promoting behavior.
A stimulus, or cue to action, must also be present in order to trigger
the health-promoting behavior. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health
Belief Model (HBM)
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, An interrelationship of multiple factors that contribute to the
occurrence of a disease. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Web of
Causation
Involves progress through five stages of change. Assesses an
individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and
provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual
process through a series of stages. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Transtheoretical Model (TTM)
Defines health as a positive dynamic state rather than simply the
absence of disease. Describes the multidimensional nature of
persons as they interact within their environment to pursue health.
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health Promotion Model
Consists of an external agent, a susceptible host, and an
environment that brings the host and agent together. - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Epidemiological Triad
Essential to the maintenance of population-based services,
describes the public health activities that all communities should
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Describes the impact of different types of public health
interventions and provides a framework to improve health. Focus
on lower levels of the pyramid tends to be more effective because it
reaches broader segments of society and requires less individual
effort. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health Impact Pyramid
Describes the scope of public health nursing practice by type of
intervention and level of practice (systems, community,
individual/family), rather than by the more traditional "site" of
service. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Public Health Nursing
Intervention Wheel
Suggests that people's beliefs about health problems, perceived
benefits of action and barriers to action, and self-efficacy explain
engagement (or lack of engagement) in health-promoting behavior.
A stimulus, or cue to action, must also be present in order to trigger
the health-promoting behavior. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health
Belief Model (HBM)
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, An interrelationship of multiple factors that contribute to the
occurrence of a disease. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Web of
Causation
Involves progress through five stages of change. Assesses an
individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior, and
provides strategies, or processes of change to guide the individual
process through a series of stages. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Transtheoretical Model (TTM)
Defines health as a positive dynamic state rather than simply the
absence of disease. Describes the multidimensional nature of
persons as they interact within their environment to pursue health.
- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Health Promotion Model
Consists of an external agent, a susceptible host, and an
environment that brings the host and agent together. - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Epidemiological Triad
Essential to the maintenance of population-based services,
describes the public health activities that all communities should
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