Community Health
YELLOW = Quizlet
QUIZ 1/2 - Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2,
11 (1/31)
Ch. 1:
- Aggregate: population group with common characteristics
- District Nurses: public healthy nurses in England who provide visiting nurse services;
historically, they cared for the people in the poorest parish districts. → Mary Robinson,
of England, was first!
- Epidemiology: study of the distribution and determinants of states health and illness in
human populations; used both as a research methodology to study states of health and
illness, and as a body of knowledge that results from the study of a specific state of
health or illness.
- Health disparties: Differences in healthcare and health outcomes experienced by one
population compared with another, frequently associated with race/ethnicity and
socioeconomic status.
- Government has 3 core functions in addressing health of citizens: 1.) assess healthcare
problems → 2.) intervenes by developing relevant healthcare policy that provides
access to services → 3.) ensures that services are delivered and outcomes achieved.
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA) signed by President Barack
Obama in 2010: to help provide affordable health insurance to most Americans.
- Access: ability to get into the healthcare system | Quality Care: appropriate care
- The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR): measures trends
in the effectiveness of care, pt safety, timeliness of care, pt centeredness, efficiency
of care.
- Agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ): developed SHARE approach,
model to promote shared decision making between healthcare provider and pt. 1.) seek
pts participation → 2.) help pt review / compare options. -> 3) assess values /
preferences. → 4.) reach consensus decision with pt. → 5.) evaluate decision.
, - fectious disease in a susceptible host.
- Proagated outbreak: outbreak resulting from the direct / indirect transmission of an
infectious agent from an infectious agent from an infected person to a susceptible
host, secondary infections can occur. Generates secondary infections with intervals
between peaks that approximate the usual incubation period for infec
- Core Competencies: Tier 1: entry-level public health professional at generalist level. →
Tier 2: management / supervisory. Considered specialists / mid-level practitioners → Tier
3: senior managers / leaders / executive level with multi-systems.
- English Poor Law of 1601: beginning of state-provided relief for the poor.
Legal responsibility to each district to care fo people within its boundaries.
- Sisters / Daughters of CHarity (Grey Sisters) 1617 in France: members took waves
to provide care to the poor. → Training program established in 1633 → Mother house
located in Paris → 1809 Elizabeth Ann Seton found in Maryland.
- 1813 = Ladies Benevolent Society of Chaleston, SC → homecare to sick
- First local health department with permanent board of health in Baltimore, MD 1798
- Lemuel Shattuck: reports that pointed out ill health / disability (1850) ← fundamental
doc in public health. First systematic use of birth / death records and demographic
data. → recommended establishment of state health department and local health
boards in every town.
- Dorothea Dix: worked on jails / insane asylums → improved for mentally ill
- Clara Barton: distributed supplies to wounded during civil war. → groundwork fo a
natural relif society / Red cross (1863)
- Lillian Wald: founder of public health nursing. → stressed preventative care. Devoted to
lower east side community. → Henry street settlement: team of 20+ nurses,
placed nurses in public schools. → became Visiting Nurse Association of New
York City (precursur to ANA scope and standards of practice)
- Mary Breckinridge: founded frontier nursing service (1925): improving health
of children. Prenatal care. → Est Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery.
- Social Security Act 1935: prevent recurrance of problems associated with
depression, especially for poor elderly people. → 1966 amended and medicare
created to provide healthcare funding to elderly → 1967 Medicaid established to
provide funding for indigent.
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS): 2002 → hazards,
disciplines, emergencymanagement.
Ch. 2: Public Health Systems: organized to effect community, not people individually.
- Bilateral Agency: 2 agencies that conduct business with one country
- Multilateral Agencies: use governmentaland nongovernmental resources.
- Philanthropic Organization: uses endowments o private funding to address needs of
individuals, families, populatinos.
Ch. munity Assessment:
- Asset-based assessment: attention is directed to community strengths and
resources as a primary approach to community assessment.
YELLOW = Quizlet
QUIZ 1/2 - Ch. 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2,
11 (1/31)
Ch. 1:
- Aggregate: population group with common characteristics
- District Nurses: public healthy nurses in England who provide visiting nurse services;
historically, they cared for the people in the poorest parish districts. → Mary Robinson,
of England, was first!
- Epidemiology: study of the distribution and determinants of states health and illness in
human populations; used both as a research methodology to study states of health and
illness, and as a body of knowledge that results from the study of a specific state of
health or illness.
- Health disparties: Differences in healthcare and health outcomes experienced by one
population compared with another, frequently associated with race/ethnicity and
socioeconomic status.
- Government has 3 core functions in addressing health of citizens: 1.) assess healthcare
problems → 2.) intervenes by developing relevant healthcare policy that provides
access to services → 3.) ensures that services are delivered and outcomes achieved.
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( PPACA) signed by President Barack
Obama in 2010: to help provide affordable health insurance to most Americans.
- Access: ability to get into the healthcare system | Quality Care: appropriate care
- The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR): measures trends
in the effectiveness of care, pt safety, timeliness of care, pt centeredness, efficiency
of care.
- Agency for healthcare research and quality (AHRQ): developed SHARE approach,
model to promote shared decision making between healthcare provider and pt. 1.) seek
pts participation → 2.) help pt review / compare options. -> 3) assess values /
preferences. → 4.) reach consensus decision with pt. → 5.) evaluate decision.
, - fectious disease in a susceptible host.
- Proagated outbreak: outbreak resulting from the direct / indirect transmission of an
infectious agent from an infectious agent from an infected person to a susceptible
host, secondary infections can occur. Generates secondary infections with intervals
between peaks that approximate the usual incubation period for infec
- Core Competencies: Tier 1: entry-level public health professional at generalist level. →
Tier 2: management / supervisory. Considered specialists / mid-level practitioners → Tier
3: senior managers / leaders / executive level with multi-systems.
- English Poor Law of 1601: beginning of state-provided relief for the poor.
Legal responsibility to each district to care fo people within its boundaries.
- Sisters / Daughters of CHarity (Grey Sisters) 1617 in France: members took waves
to provide care to the poor. → Training program established in 1633 → Mother house
located in Paris → 1809 Elizabeth Ann Seton found in Maryland.
- 1813 = Ladies Benevolent Society of Chaleston, SC → homecare to sick
- First local health department with permanent board of health in Baltimore, MD 1798
- Lemuel Shattuck: reports that pointed out ill health / disability (1850) ← fundamental
doc in public health. First systematic use of birth / death records and demographic
data. → recommended establishment of state health department and local health
boards in every town.
- Dorothea Dix: worked on jails / insane asylums → improved for mentally ill
- Clara Barton: distributed supplies to wounded during civil war. → groundwork fo a
natural relif society / Red cross (1863)
- Lillian Wald: founder of public health nursing. → stressed preventative care. Devoted to
lower east side community. → Henry street settlement: team of 20+ nurses,
placed nurses in public schools. → became Visiting Nurse Association of New
York City (precursur to ANA scope and standards of practice)
- Mary Breckinridge: founded frontier nursing service (1925): improving health
of children. Prenatal care. → Est Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery.
- Social Security Act 1935: prevent recurrance of problems associated with
depression, especially for poor elderly people. → 1966 amended and medicare
created to provide healthcare funding to elderly → 1967 Medicaid established to
provide funding for indigent.
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS): 2002 → hazards,
disciplines, emergencymanagement.
Ch. 2: Public Health Systems: organized to effect community, not people individually.
- Bilateral Agency: 2 agencies that conduct business with one country
- Multilateral Agencies: use governmentaland nongovernmental resources.
- Philanthropic Organization: uses endowments o private funding to address needs of
individuals, families, populatinos.
Ch. munity Assessment:
- Asset-based assessment: attention is directed to community strengths and
resources as a primary approach to community assessment.
