TEST BANK: PUBLIC / COMMUNITY HEALTH AND NURSING PRACTICE:CARING FOR POPULATIONS, 2ND EDITION, CHRISTINE L. SAVAGE Latest Update 2025/2026

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TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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o Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
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o L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. oBasis ofor oPublic oHealth oNursing oKnowledge oand oSkills

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1. oPublic oHealth oand oNursing oPractice
2. oOptimizing oPopulation oHealth
3. oEpidemiology oand oNursing oPractice
4. oIntroduction oto oCommunity oAssessment
5. oHealth oProgram oPlanning
6. oEnvironmental oHealth
II. oCommunity oHealth oAcross oPopulations: oPublic oHealth oIssues
7. oHealth oDisparities oand othe oSocial oDeterminants oof oHealth
8. oHealth oand oVulnerable oPopulations
9. oCommunicable oDiseases
10. oNoncommunicable oDiseases
11. oMental oHealth
12. oSubstance oUse oand othe oHealth oof oCommunities
13. oInjury oand oViolence
III. oPublic oHealth oPlanning
14. oHealth oPlanning ofor oLocal oPublic oHealth oDepartments
15. oHealth oPlanning ofor oAcute oCare oSettings
16. oHealth oPlanning ofor oPrimary oCare oSettings
17. oHealth oPlanning owith oRural oand oUrban oCommunities
18. oHealth oPlanning ofor oMaternal-Infant oand oChild oHealth oSettings
19. oHealth oPlanning ofor oSchool oSettings
20. oHealth oPlanning ofor oOccupational oand oEnvironmental oHealth
21. oHealth oPlanning, oPublic oHealth oPolicy, oand oFinance
22. oHealth oPlanning ofor oEmergency oPreparedness oand oDisaster oManagement

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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice o o




Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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o 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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o issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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o develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
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3. Epidemic; population o



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o 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
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o disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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1. Risk assessment for disease
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the o o o o o o o



earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations o o




o 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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Organization(WHO), which is:
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1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
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globalpopulation.
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.
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o 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
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there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
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supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
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following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment