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TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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n Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine L.
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n Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS n n n
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
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2. Optimizing Population Health
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3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
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4. Introduction to Community Assessment
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5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health
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II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
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8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases
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10. Noncommunicable Diseases
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11. Mental Health
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12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
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13. Injury and Violence
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III. Public Health Planning
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14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
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22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice n n
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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n 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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n issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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n develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
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n from two perspectives:
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2. Intervention; government n
3. Epidemic; population n
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n 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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n disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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n infections,and n _.
1. Risk assessment for disease
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2. Promotion of primary care n n n
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the n n n n n n n
n earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations n n
n 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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n worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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n Organization(WHO), which is: n n n
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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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.
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n 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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n Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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n Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
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n there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
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n 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