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TESTBANKforCommunityPublic Health Nursing
8TH Edition by Mary
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Table of Contents
Unit 1: Introduction to Community Health Nursing
1. Health: A Community View
2. Historical Factors: Public Health Nursing in Context
3. Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and Population-Focused Nursing Practice
4. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Unit 2: The Art and Science of Community Health Nursing
5. Epidemiology
6. Community Assessment
7. Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
8. Community Health Education and Engagement
9. Case Management
Unit 3: Factors that Influence the Health of the Community
10. Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
11. The Healthcare System
12. Economics of Health Care
13. Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing
14. Environmental Health
15. Health in the Global Community
Unit 4: Aggregates in the Community
16. Child and Adolescent Health
17. Women’s Health
18. Men’s Health
19. Senior Health
20. Family Health
Unit 5: Vulnerable Populations
21. Populations Affected by Disabilities
22. Veterans’ Health
23. Homeless Populations
24. Rural and Migrant Health
25. Populations Affected by Mental Illness
Unit 6: Population Health Problems
26. Communicable Disease
27. Substance Abuse
28. Violence
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29. Natural and Man-Made Disasters
Unit 7: Community Health Settings
30. School Health
31. Occupational Health
32. Forensic and Correctional Nursing
33. Faith Community Nursing
34. Home Health and Hospice Index
Chapter 01: Health: A Community View
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health
care?
a. Politicians are discussing how to improve health care.
b. The media has provided mixed messages about the health care system.
c. Our national health care costs keep increasing.
d. The new health care system offers free services to Americans.
ANS: C ff
The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing
costs, which cannot be sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted
for the majority of escalating health care dollars, which increased from
5.7% of the gross domesticproduct in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015.
Politicians and the media both influence Americans‘ perceptions about health
care; however, they are not the primary reason why Americans are concerned.
The new health care system will change the health care access and
availability, but will not necessarily be offering any free services to
Americans.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension)
2. A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health
care system. Why is this involvement important?
a. Nurses, as central characters in several popular TV series, are currently very
visible in American me d i Na .ff ff
b. Nurses are primarily responsible for m the various units in our
health care system.
c. Nurses are the largest segment of health care providers.
d. Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.
ANS: C ff
As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about
the current health care system and all the problemsthat result
from peoplenot seeking care until they are desperately ill. Nurses,
as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually
believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, whose
work is central to our current health care ff
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TESTBANKforCommunityPublic Health Nursing
8TH Edition by Mary
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Table of Contents
Unit 1: Introduction to Community Health Nursing
1. Health: A Community View
2. Historical Factors: Public Health Nursing in Context
3. Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and Population-Focused Nursing Practice
4. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Unit 2: The Art and Science of Community Health Nursing
5. Epidemiology
6. Community Assessment
7. Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
8. Community Health Education and Engagement
9. Case Management
Unit 3: Factors that Influence the Health of the Community
10. Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
11. The Healthcare System
12. Economics of Health Care
13. Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing
14. Environmental Health
15. Health in the Global Community
Unit 4: Aggregates in the Community
16. Child and Adolescent Health
17. Women’s Health
18. Men’s Health
19. Senior Health
20. Family Health
Unit 5: Vulnerable Populations
21. Populations Affected by Disabilities
22. Veterans’ Health
23. Homeless Populations
24. Rural and Migrant Health
25. Populations Affected by Mental Illness
Unit 6: Population Health Problems
26. Communicable Disease
27. Substance Abuse
28. Violence
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29. Natural and Man-Made Disasters
Unit 7: Community Health Settings
30. School Health
31. Occupational Health
32. Forensic and Correctional Nursing
33. Faith Community Nursing
34. Home Health and Hospice Index
Chapter 01: Health: A Community View
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health
care?
a. Politicians are discussing how to improve health care.
b. The media has provided mixed messages about the health care system.
c. Our national health care costs keep increasing.
d. The new health care system offers free services to Americans.
ANS: C ff
The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing
costs, which cannot be sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted
for the majority of escalating health care dollars, which increased from
5.7% of the gross domesticproduct in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015.
Politicians and the media both influence Americans‘ perceptions about health
care; however, they are not the primary reason why Americans are concerned.
The new health care system will change the health care access and
availability, but will not necessarily be offering any free services to
Americans.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension)
2. A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health
care system. Why is this involvement important?
a. Nurses, as central characters in several popular TV series, are currently very
visible in American me d i Na .ff ff
b. Nurses are primarily responsible for m the various units in our
health care system.
c. Nurses are the largest segment of health care providers.
d. Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.
ANS: C ff
As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about
the current health care system and all the problemsthat result
from peoplenot seeking care until they are desperately ill. Nurses,
as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually
believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, whose
work is central to our current health care ff
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