TEST BANK FOR PUBLIC / COMMUNITY HEALTH AND NURSING PRACTICE: CARING FOR POPULATIONS 2ND EDITION CHRISTINE L. SAVAGE ISBN-10: 0803677111

Chapter 1: Public Health and Nursing Practice Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two perspectives: 1. Disease; individual 2. Intervention; government 3. Epidemic; population 4. Individual; population ____ 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections, and __________________. 1. Risk assessment for disease 2. Promotion of primary care 3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease 4. Governmental safety regulations