NR 442: Community - Exam 1 Questions with Verified Answers
(Correct Update)
Question 1: define: health
Answer: complete well-being, physical, social and mental & not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Question 2: What are components of health?
Answer: psycholoigcal, biological, and sociological
Question 3: Define: Public Health
Answer: sciene and art of preventing dsiease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency
through organized community effort
Question 4: define: community health
Answer: extends the realm of public health - include organized health efforts at the comunity level
through government and private efforts
Question 5: Primary Prevention
Answer: preventing problems before they happen example: dietary teaching during pregnancy
Question 6: Secondary
Answer: early detection and intervention example: HIV testing, screening for cervical cancer
Question 7: Tertiary
Answer: correction and presentation of deterioration of disease state example: exercise therapy after
stroke, teaching client with diabetes how to administer insulin
Question 8: Goal of Healthy People 2020
Answer: attain high quality, live longer, achieve health equity, create social and physical environment
Question 9: Public Health Nursing
Answer: practice and promoting health of populations
Question 10: PHN Intervention Wheel
Answer: population based, contains three levels of practice (individual, community and system)
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, Question 11: Endemic
Answer: disease that are always present in a population (colds and pneumonia)
Question 12: Epidemic
Answer: diseases that are not always present in a population but flare up on occasion (diphtheria and
measles)
Question 13: Pandemic
Answer: existence of disease in large proportion of the population - global epidemic (HIV, AIDS, and
annual outbreaks of influenza type A)
Question 14: Public Health Laws enacted in what year?
Answer: 1849
Question 15: Who is John Snow?
Answer: demonstrated the transmission of cholera via the public water source
Question 16: Lemuel Shattuck
Answer: published vital statistics in Massachusetts; called for child health reform, first board of health
formed in response
Question 17: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Answer: Founder of modern nursing
Question 18: Board of Health/Health Departments began in what year?
Answer: 1866
Question 19: TB Surveillance began when?
Answer: 1889
Question 20: define: community caregiver
Answer: traditional healer common in non-western, ancient and primitive societies
Question 21: Lillian Wald ( 1867-1940)
Answer: established henry street settlement (1893)
-established public health nursing in U.S.
-Role: "one of helping people to help themselves"
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(Correct Update)
Question 1: define: health
Answer: complete well-being, physical, social and mental & not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Question 2: What are components of health?
Answer: psycholoigcal, biological, and sociological
Question 3: Define: Public Health
Answer: sciene and art of preventing dsiease, prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency
through organized community effort
Question 4: define: community health
Answer: extends the realm of public health - include organized health efforts at the comunity level
through government and private efforts
Question 5: Primary Prevention
Answer: preventing problems before they happen example: dietary teaching during pregnancy
Question 6: Secondary
Answer: early detection and intervention example: HIV testing, screening for cervical cancer
Question 7: Tertiary
Answer: correction and presentation of deterioration of disease state example: exercise therapy after
stroke, teaching client with diabetes how to administer insulin
Question 8: Goal of Healthy People 2020
Answer: attain high quality, live longer, achieve health equity, create social and physical environment
Question 9: Public Health Nursing
Answer: practice and promoting health of populations
Question 10: PHN Intervention Wheel
Answer: population based, contains three levels of practice (individual, community and system)
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, Question 11: Endemic
Answer: disease that are always present in a population (colds and pneumonia)
Question 12: Epidemic
Answer: diseases that are not always present in a population but flare up on occasion (diphtheria and
measles)
Question 13: Pandemic
Answer: existence of disease in large proportion of the population - global epidemic (HIV, AIDS, and
annual outbreaks of influenza type A)
Question 14: Public Health Laws enacted in what year?
Answer: 1849
Question 15: Who is John Snow?
Answer: demonstrated the transmission of cholera via the public water source
Question 16: Lemuel Shattuck
Answer: published vital statistics in Massachusetts; called for child health reform, first board of health
formed in response
Question 17: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Answer: Founder of modern nursing
Question 18: Board of Health/Health Departments began in what year?
Answer: 1866
Question 19: TB Surveillance began when?
Answer: 1889
Question 20: define: community caregiver
Answer: traditional healer common in non-western, ancient and primitive societies
Question 21: Lillian Wald ( 1867-1940)
Answer: established henry street settlement (1893)
-established public health nursing in U.S.
-Role: "one of helping people to help themselves"
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