Community Health Nursing Midterm Exam
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Question 1.
Health
Correct Answer: a state of complete well-being, physical, social, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Question 2.
Community
Correct Answer: a group or collection of locally-based individuals individuals,
interacting in social units and sharing common interest, characteristics, values,
and/or goals - geopolitical (baed on where you live, zip codes) - phenomenological
(based on beliefs, social networks, characteristics)
Question 3.
Population
Correct Answer: a group of people that have common characteristics
Question 4.
Aggregate
Correct Answer: sub-population with similar characteristics
Question 5.
Primary prevention
Correct Answer: prevention problems before they occur - health promotion and health
protection - immunizations
Question 6.
Secondary pre- vention
Correct Answer: - early diagnosis and treatment - screening for STDs
Question 7.
Tertiary prevention
Correct Answer: - correction and prevention of deterioration of disease rate -
limitation of disability and rehabilitation - teaching insulin administration in the home
, Question 8.
Health status indicators
Correct Answer: - individual behaviors (tobacco use, nutrition, obesity) - physical and
social environment (environmental quality, injury, violence) - health system issues
(access to health care services)
Question 9.
Upstream thinking
Correct Answer: - society is the focus of chance (macroscopic) - obesity rates: health
policy changes, vending machines in school with healthy choices, school lunch
program modifications
Question 10.
Macroscopic approach to health
Correct Answer: - examines interfamily and inter-community themes in health and
illness - delineates factors in the population that perpetuate and develop of illness or
foster the development of health - emphasizes social, economic, and environmental
precursors of illness - nursing interventions may include modifying social or
environmental variables - may involve social or political action
Question 11.
Microscopic approach to health
Correct Answer: - individual, and sometimes family, response to health and illness -
often emphasize behavioral responses to individual's illness or lifestyle patterns -
nursing interventions often aimed at modifying individual's behavior by changing his
or her perception of belief system
Question 12.
Epidemiological triangle (agent, host, environmental)
Correct Answer: - agent: nutritive elements, chemical agents, physical agents,
infectious agents - host: genetics, age, sex, ethnic group, physiological state, prior
immunological experience, intercurrent or preexisting disease, human behavior -
environmental factors: physical environment, biological environment, socioeconomic
environment
Question 13.
Descriptive epidemiology
Correct Answer: focuses on the amount of distribution of health and health problems
within a population
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Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
Health
Correct Answer: a state of complete well-being, physical, social, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Question 2.
Community
Correct Answer: a group or collection of locally-based individuals individuals,
interacting in social units and sharing common interest, characteristics, values,
and/or goals - geopolitical (baed on where you live, zip codes) - phenomenological
(based on beliefs, social networks, characteristics)
Question 3.
Population
Correct Answer: a group of people that have common characteristics
Question 4.
Aggregate
Correct Answer: sub-population with similar characteristics
Question 5.
Primary prevention
Correct Answer: prevention problems before they occur - health promotion and health
protection - immunizations
Question 6.
Secondary pre- vention
Correct Answer: - early diagnosis and treatment - screening for STDs
Question 7.
Tertiary prevention
Correct Answer: - correction and prevention of deterioration of disease rate -
limitation of disability and rehabilitation - teaching insulin administration in the home
, Question 8.
Health status indicators
Correct Answer: - individual behaviors (tobacco use, nutrition, obesity) - physical and
social environment (environmental quality, injury, violence) - health system issues
(access to health care services)
Question 9.
Upstream thinking
Correct Answer: - society is the focus of chance (macroscopic) - obesity rates: health
policy changes, vending machines in school with healthy choices, school lunch
program modifications
Question 10.
Macroscopic approach to health
Correct Answer: - examines interfamily and inter-community themes in health and
illness - delineates factors in the population that perpetuate and develop of illness or
foster the development of health - emphasizes social, economic, and environmental
precursors of illness - nursing interventions may include modifying social or
environmental variables - may involve social or political action
Question 11.
Microscopic approach to health
Correct Answer: - individual, and sometimes family, response to health and illness -
often emphasize behavioral responses to individual's illness or lifestyle patterns -
nursing interventions often aimed at modifying individual's behavior by changing his
or her perception of belief system
Question 12.
Epidemiological triangle (agent, host, environmental)
Correct Answer: - agent: nutritive elements, chemical agents, physical agents,
infectious agents - host: genetics, age, sex, ethnic group, physiological state, prior
immunological experience, intercurrent or preexisting disease, human behavior -
environmental factors: physical environment, biological environment, socioeconomic
environment
Question 13.
Descriptive epidemiology
Correct Answer: focuses on the amount of distribution of health and health problems
within a population
