Assessment Chapter 5 - Health Program Planning Chapter
13 - Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
Chapter 21 - Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and
Finance) Questions With Complete Solutions
What is a common health outbreak in schools?
Head lice
During the assessment phase, key informants can provide a
wealth of information as well as generate what?
Non-statistical data such as values, beliefs, and perceived needs
How can educators gain participation?
Asking open-ended questions, inviting participation, and
planning small-group activities, where a person responds based
on the group rather than presenting his own information
What demographic should be consulted when creating a policy
that would reduce the rate of adolescent E-cigarette use?
Adolescents living in the community may offer valuable insights
as why teens are smoking and ways to prevent more teens from
smoking
What is social acceptability?
When evaluating public policy protocols, the government must
consider the extent to which the public will accept and support a
policy proposal
, Why must nurse professionals have a working knowledge of
government, health care law, the policy process, and the political
forces that are shaping the future of health care?
Government and policy have a large impact on nursing health
The benefits of the affordable Care Act includes a provision to
expand access to Medicaid to include adults/families under
133% of the federal poverty line, allows parents to keep children
up to the age of 26 on their health plan, and expand access to
and coverage or more preventative health services.
B.
The CDC just released an alert regarding a new strain of
influenza and one of your family members is complaining of flu-
like symptoms. As a nurse, what should you do?
Notify the public health department and begin epidemiological
screening of your family members
There are 3 notifiable STIs that have federally funded control
programs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. What is the
nurse's responsibility?
Contact the local health department, and they will likely contact
previous sexual partners to be screened too
What can a public health department do if they have little or no
funding available to expand a health center?
Open a federally qualified health center under section 330 of the
Public Health Service Act
How are public health departments in rural areas challenged?