POPULATION HEALTH IN COMMUNITY
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Focus of Public Health
Answer: preventing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life
●● Activities of Public Health
Answer: including disease surveillance, research, policy development,
and health education.
●● Population Health
Answer: specific groups within broader population
●● Focus of Population Health
Answer: understand the health status, health determinants, and outcomes
of these groups
●● Activities of Population Health
Answer: tracking health indicators and analyzing data.
, ●● Community Health
Answer: Focus: on the health of individuals/families within a specific
community, emphasizing collaboration and engagement with community
members.
●● Activities of Community Health
Answer: addressing local health needs, promoting access to healthcare
and health resources, and empowering community members to improve
their own health.
●● First recorded public health laws
Answer: written in Elizabethan England.
●● Care providers in early public health
Answer: Religious women, provided care, most of which was
institutions.
●● Care education in early nursing
Answer: Care was provided by women who had little or no
education/training.
●● Florence Nightingale's contribution
Answer: created nursing 'training', cleanliness (sanitation) was stressed
as well as light and fresh air.
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPLETE
REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Focus of Public Health
Answer: preventing disease, promoting health, and prolonging life
●● Activities of Public Health
Answer: including disease surveillance, research, policy development,
and health education.
●● Population Health
Answer: specific groups within broader population
●● Focus of Population Health
Answer: understand the health status, health determinants, and outcomes
of these groups
●● Activities of Population Health
Answer: tracking health indicators and analyzing data.
, ●● Community Health
Answer: Focus: on the health of individuals/families within a specific
community, emphasizing collaboration and engagement with community
members.
●● Activities of Community Health
Answer: addressing local health needs, promoting access to healthcare
and health resources, and empowering community members to improve
their own health.
●● First recorded public health laws
Answer: written in Elizabethan England.
●● Care providers in early public health
Answer: Religious women, provided care, most of which was
institutions.
●● Care education in early nursing
Answer: Care was provided by women who had little or no
education/training.
●● Florence Nightingale's contribution
Answer: created nursing 'training', cleanliness (sanitation) was stressed
as well as light and fresh air.
