COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 5TH
EDITION 2026 COMPLETE TEST BANK VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
◉ Public Health. Answer: "The science and art of preventing disease,
prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and
informed choices of society, organizations, public and private,
communities, and individuals"
Centered on promoting healthy lifestyles through health education,
protecting against environmental hazards, controlling infectious
diseases, preparing for and responding to disasters, and promoting
healthcare equity, quality, and accessibility
◉ The 10 Essential Public Health Services. Answer: To protect and
promote the health of all people in all communities
•Actively promote policies, systems, and community conditions to
enable optimal health for all
•Remove systemic and structural barriers that create health
inequities
◦Poverty, racism, gender discrimination
•Everyone should have a fair and just opportunity to achieve optimal
health and well-being
, ◉ 10 essential public health services. Answer: Assessment
Policy Development
Assurance
◉ Public Health. Answer: •Concerned with health of community as a
whole
•Preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health through
organized efforts to prevent injury, illness and premature death
•Efforts undertaken through programs, services and policies
•"What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in
which people can be healthy"
◉ Population health. Answer: •Focus on understanding factors that
influence the health of populations over lifetimes
•Measures patterns of occurrences of problems and implements
policies for overall health and well being of society as a whole entity
•Goal to improve health and reduce health inequities between
populations
•"An opportunity for healthcare systems and organizations to work
together in order to improve the health of the communities they
serve"