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SAVAGE Ch: 2 optimizing pop health Questions with 100%
VERIFIED Answers UPDATED!!!
In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to
increase the number of Americans
who are healthy at every stage of life. The National Prevention
Strategy was authorized by the:
A. Department of Health and Human Services
B. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
C. Affordable Care Act
D. American Medical Association - ANSWER ANS: C. affordable
care act
A nursing student is studying the National Prevention Council
Action Plan. The student
correctly identifies which one of the following interventions as
not reflecting the strategic directions in this
plan?
A. Conducting bi-weekly visits to new mothers and newborn
babies
B. Paying for insurance for low-income families
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C. Providing nutrition classes which offer weekly fill-in guides
for grocery shopping
D. Building a health and exercise center in a hospital near the
physical and occupational
therapy areas - ANSWER ANS: B. paying for insurance for low
income families
Providing financial health-care assistance for lower income
families is not one of the strategic directions of the National
Prevention Council Action Plan.
Based on the ecological model of health, a nurse would
evaluate which of the following to
understand why a community is having a large incidence of
recurring respiratory infections?
A. Local health-care facilities
B. Community health-care programs
C. Medical tests results
D. Living and employment situations - ANSWER ANS: D. living
and employment situations
Based on the ecological model, the public health nurse would
evaluate how, where, and
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with whom the patients spent most of their time.
If a nurse is focusing on prevention and establishing a public
health intervention for an illness
by following the natural history of a disease, he or she is:
A. Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives
treatment
B. Studying the biological components of the disease
C. Looking at medical trends of clients who have had the
disease
D. Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died -
ANSWER ANS: C. looking at medical trends....
Following the natural history of a disease allows the nurse to
identify who is at the greatest risk by looking at the groups who
have had it.
When a health-care provider offers nutritional health teaching
on portions, patterns, and choices,
he or she is using which type of approach?
A. Ecological
B. Downstream
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C. Upstream
D. Health promotion - ANSWER ANS: B. Downstream
This approach to health promotion is considered downstream
since it does include environmental factors such as a lack of
supermarkets in its focus. Upstream would include more
environmental factors such as urban zoning for gardens.
A school cafeteria is planning menus for the school year. They
must follow the 2012 national
law that calls for school lunch programs to:
A. Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less sodium,
and no trans fats
B. Have more protein and fewer carbohydrates
C. Offer 2% milk and low fat dairy products
D. Places a cap on lunch calories at 900, for all grades - ANSWER
ANS: A. Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less
sodium, and no trans fats
A nurse could encourage prevention for a patient with diabetes
by
A. Having the patient try an experimental treatment
SAVAGE Ch: 2 optimizing pop health Questions with 100%
VERIFIED Answers UPDATED!!!
In 2011, the National Prevention Strategy released a plan to
increase the number of Americans
who are healthy at every stage of life. The National Prevention
Strategy was authorized by the:
A. Department of Health and Human Services
B. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
C. Affordable Care Act
D. American Medical Association - ANSWER ANS: C. affordable
care act
A nursing student is studying the National Prevention Council
Action Plan. The student
correctly identifies which one of the following interventions as
not reflecting the strategic directions in this
plan?
A. Conducting bi-weekly visits to new mothers and newborn
babies
B. Paying for insurance for low-income families
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C. Providing nutrition classes which offer weekly fill-in guides
for grocery shopping
D. Building a health and exercise center in a hospital near the
physical and occupational
therapy areas - ANSWER ANS: B. paying for insurance for low
income families
Providing financial health-care assistance for lower income
families is not one of the strategic directions of the National
Prevention Council Action Plan.
Based on the ecological model of health, a nurse would
evaluate which of the following to
understand why a community is having a large incidence of
recurring respiratory infections?
A. Local health-care facilities
B. Community health-care programs
C. Medical tests results
D. Living and employment situations - ANSWER ANS: D. living
and employment situations
Based on the ecological model, the public health nurse would
evaluate how, where, and
,3|Page
with whom the patients spent most of their time.
If a nurse is focusing on prevention and establishing a public
health intervention for an illness
by following the natural history of a disease, he or she is:
A. Making sure that everyone in a certain area receives
treatment
B. Studying the biological components of the disease
C. Looking at medical trends of clients who have had the
disease
D. Going to the autopsies of the patients who have died -
ANSWER ANS: C. looking at medical trends....
Following the natural history of a disease allows the nurse to
identify who is at the greatest risk by looking at the groups who
have had it.
When a health-care provider offers nutritional health teaching
on portions, patterns, and choices,
he or she is using which type of approach?
A. Ecological
B. Downstream
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C. Upstream
D. Health promotion - ANSWER ANS: B. Downstream
This approach to health promotion is considered downstream
since it does include environmental factors such as a lack of
supermarkets in its focus. Upstream would include more
environmental factors such as urban zoning for gardens.
A school cafeteria is planning menus for the school year. They
must follow the 2012 national
law that calls for school lunch programs to:
A. Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less sodium,
and no trans fats
B. Have more protein and fewer carbohydrates
C. Offer 2% milk and low fat dairy products
D. Places a cap on lunch calories at 900, for all grades - ANSWER
ANS: A. Have larger portions of fruits and vegetables, less
sodium, and no trans fats
A nurse could encourage prevention for a patient with diabetes
by
A. Having the patient try an experimental treatment
