Community Health Exam #1 questions and answers well illustrated.

Community Health Exam #1 questions and answers well illustrated. 3 core functions of public health - correct sment, public policy formation, assurance assessment is systematic ___ ____ of the population, monitoring of the population's ______, and making information about the health of the community ______ - correct collection, health, available Policy development refers to the need to provide _____ in developing policies that support the health of the population, including use of the _____ _____ ____ in making decisions about policy - correct rship, scientific knowledge base Assurance refers to the role of public health in making sure that essential community-oriented ________ _______ are available, which may include providing essential _____ _____ services for those who would otherwise not receive them - correct h services, personal health services Two parts of assurance are making sure community services are ______, and insuring you have a work force that's _____ and ______ - correct able, competent, qualified Describe assessment - correct matic data collection of the population, monitoring of the population's health status, and making information available on the health of the community describe policy development - correct to provide leadership in developing policies that support the health of the population, including the use of the scientific knowledge base in making decisions about policy Two parts of assurance - correct answers.1. making sure community-oriented health services are available, 2. insuring community has a work force that's qualified and competent PHN providing an education program about the dangers of smoking is an example of what level of prevention? - correct ry PHN providing an flu vaccination program in a community retirement village would be an example of what type of prevention? - correct dary PHN providing a diabetes clinic for a defined population of adults in a low-income housing community. - correct ary ____ ____ is what members of a society do collectively to ensure that conditions exist in which people can be healthy. - correct c health Two terms for a collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics. - correct ation, aggregate Definition of population/aggregate - correct ction of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics Identifying autoimmune people in a community as at increased risk for west nile virus would be an example of identifying what? - correct pulation Essential PH Services: List examples of diagnosing and investigating health problems and hazards in the community - correct paint, trash, uneven concrete, poor playground equipment Essential PH Services: Give examples of community-based health education - correct answers.Eddy Eagle (children and guns), fall prevention education in senior housing, school lunch programs, hand hygiene Essential PH services: list examples of enforcing laws that protect health and ensure safety - correct cing immunization laws, food transportation safety laws The term "population" can be used interchangeably with what term? - correct gate 3 factors that can define community - correct e, place, function (place can be a place in time as well as geographical) 2 categories in the Consensus Set of Indicators for assessing community health status are indicators of health ______ ______ and indicators of ______ ______ - correct s outcome, risk factors 3 characteristics/dimensions of community health - correct s, structure, process 3 components within the "status" dimension of community health - correct answers.Physical, emotional, social Examples of status measures of community health that would encompass all three (physical, emotional, social) effects. - correct r absenteeism, infant mortality rates Give some examples of indicators of health status outcome within the "Consensus Set of Indicators..." - correct -specific and ethnicity-specific infant mortality, death rates and disease rates per 100K population List five indicators of risk factors within the "consensus set of indicators for assessing community health status" - correct answers.1. Low birth weight, 2. Births to adolescents, 3. prenatal care, 4. childhood poverty 5. persons living in bad air quality Community nursing diagnosis consists of three parts: 1. ____ _____ identifies specific problem faced by community, 2. ______ specifies community nurse will be working with, 3. ____ ____ identifies factors contributing to the problem - correct of, among, related to In a community nursing diagnosis, "risk of" identifies what? - correct fic problem faced by community In a community nursing diagnosis, "among" refers to what? - correct nity the nurse will be working with in relation to the identified problem In a community nursing diagnosis, "related to" identifies what? - correct rs contributing to the problem What is probably the biggest issue in assessment? - correct ng entry, then once entry is attained, negotiation A locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting societal institutions, informal groups, and aggregates that are interdependent and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs - correct nity The planning phase includes analyzing and establishing ________ among community health problems, establishing ______ and objectives and identifying _______ activities that will accomplish the objectives. - correct ities, goals, intervention Transforming a plan for improved community health into achievement of goals and objectives is _________ - correct vention Federal income poverty guidelines include what three factors? - correct y size, age of head of household, number of children in household under 18 years of age Difference in AFDC and TANF - correct answers.AFDC - moms never had to seek employment 4 reasons why one leaves poverty are too ______ to stay, a vision or a ______, a key ________, and a special _____ or ______ - correct ul, goal, relationship, talent, skill two things that help move someone out of poverty - correct tion, relationships ______ poverty is defined as poverty for two generations or longer. ______ poverty is a shorter time and is caused by circumstance. - correct ational, situational TANF provides financial assistance to children deprived of parental support because of _____, _______, _______ from the home or in some states ________. - correct , disability, absence, unemployment Public law passed in 1987 that officially involved the federal government with meeting the needs of homeless persons. - correct answers.Steward B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1994 Spatially defined areas of high poverty - correct borhood poverty A situation of hardship and struggle that may be transient or episodic - correct s poverty effort to move long-term psychiatric patients out of the hospital and back into their own community - correct titutionalization 5 Steps in using an interpreter in healthcare setting - correct answers.1. speak directly to the patient, 2. position yourself to face the patient, 3. understand that the interpreter will interpret in the first person, 4. speak slowly and pause regularly, 5. everything is interpreted, regardless of perception of its importance Immigrant health issue may include _______ constraints, _______ barriers, ____, ____, _____ backgrounds, reliance on ______ ______ - correct cial, language, social, religious, cultural, traditional healing a shared feeling of peoplehood among a group of individuals - correct city Condition in which individuals or groups are highly susceptible to harm - correct rability vulnerability is characterized by ____, ____ and _____ variables - correct idual, social, environmental feeling of separation from the mainstream society - correct franchisement the disenfranchised individual does not have a(n) -______ connection with any particular group or society - correct onal victim ______ has become part of the outlook on care for the poor - correct m blaming powerlessness and ______ go hand-in-hand - correct ty ______ is common amont vulnerable groups - correct lessness, poverty children in poverty have an increase risk of ______ diseases, more _______ induced injuries, more developmental ______, poorer ______, ________ immunizations, and more school ______ problems and ________ - correct ic (such as asthma, esp upper respiratory), trauma, delays, nutrition, inadequate, concentration, absenteeism cultural ______ is advocating, mediating, and intervening between the patient's culture and the biomedical health care culture - correct ring a systematic way to identify beliefs, values, meanings and behaviors of a culture while considering their history, life experiences and social and physical environments - correct ral nursing assessment