Community Health Module 1 Exam
10 Essential Public Health Services CDC - -(1) Monitor environmental and
health status to identify and solve environmental health problems
(2) Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and health
hazards in the community
(3) Develop policies and standards of care that support individual and
community environmental health efforts
(4) Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental health issues
(5) mobilize community partnerships and actions to identify and solve
environmental health problems
(6) Enforce laws and regulations that protect environmental health and
ensure safety
(7) Link people to needed environmental health services and sure the
provision of environmental health services when otherwise unavailable (i.e.
vaccines)
(8) Assure a competent environmental health workforce
(9) Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and
population-based environmental health services
(10) Research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental
health problems
- Stakeholder - -People who live, work, and interface with the community
and have a vested interest in the life, health, and maintenance of the
community.
Ex. community leaders, people who live in the community, teachers, law
enforcement, employers, teachers, healthcare providers and workers, clergy
- Moral Imperative - -> A moral imperative is what's inside a person that
compels them to act. It's an act of their reason and why they choose to do
so.
> Policy makers use this term.
- Key Principles of Public Health Nursing - -> Emphasizes primary prevention
> Works to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of people
> Recognizes the client (including community) as a partner > in all aspects
of their care
> Uses resources sensibly to achieve best outcomes
- World Health Organization (WHO) - -> Public branch of the United Nations
(UN)
> Health is not achieved at the individual level
> Health is achieved within the context of the pop and environment
surrounding the individual
, > Provides daily information upon studies and reports on a work level, also
establish world standards for antibiotics and vaccines
> Primarily focuses on health care workforce and education, environment
sanitation, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and primary care
- Healthy People 2020 - -> Implementing health promotion & disease
prevention strategies leads to lower expense for healthcare & improves the
length of the client's lifespan
> Goals guide the nurse in developing health promotion strategies to
improve individual & community health
> Determinants of health: diet, biology & genetics, environment, stress,
education, finances, social status, stigma, health policies
> Communicates high-priority health issues and actions such as: access to
healthcare, clinical preventative services, environmental quality, injury &
violence, maternal/infant/child health, mental health, nutrition/physical
activity/obesity, oral health, reproductive & sexual health, social
determinants, substance abuse tobacco
- Nightingale's Environmental Theory - -> Highlights the relationship
between and individual's environment and health
> Depicts health as a continuum
> Emphasizes preventative care
- Health Belief Model - -> Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors
and assumes preventive health is primarily to avoid disease
> Emphasizes upon change within the individual level
> Describes taking action upon avoiding a disease based on:
>> Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of disease
>> Modifying factors like demographics or knowledge level
>> Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action
>> Cues to action such as media campaigns, disease effect on
family/friends, and recommendations from healthcare professionals
- Milio's Framework for Prevention - -> Complements health belief model,
but emphasizes change at the community level
> Identifies relationship b/w health deficits and availability of health
promoting resources
> Theorizes that behavior change within a lg # of people can ultimately lead
to social change
- Pender's Health Promotion Model - -> Similar to health belief model, but
does NOT consider health risk as a factor that provokes change
> Examines factors that affect individual actions to promote and protect
health
>> Personal factors (biological, psychological, sociocultural), behaviors,
abilities, and self-efficacy
10 Essential Public Health Services CDC - -(1) Monitor environmental and
health status to identify and solve environmental health problems
(2) Diagnose and investigate environmental health problems and health
hazards in the community
(3) Develop policies and standards of care that support individual and
community environmental health efforts
(4) Inform, educate, and empower people about environmental health issues
(5) mobilize community partnerships and actions to identify and solve
environmental health problems
(6) Enforce laws and regulations that protect environmental health and
ensure safety
(7) Link people to needed environmental health services and sure the
provision of environmental health services when otherwise unavailable (i.e.
vaccines)
(8) Assure a competent environmental health workforce
(9) Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and
population-based environmental health services
(10) Research for new insights and innovative solutions to environmental
health problems
- Stakeholder - -People who live, work, and interface with the community
and have a vested interest in the life, health, and maintenance of the
community.
Ex. community leaders, people who live in the community, teachers, law
enforcement, employers, teachers, healthcare providers and workers, clergy
- Moral Imperative - -> A moral imperative is what's inside a person that
compels them to act. It's an act of their reason and why they choose to do
so.
> Policy makers use this term.
- Key Principles of Public Health Nursing - -> Emphasizes primary prevention
> Works to achieve the greatest good for the largest number of people
> Recognizes the client (including community) as a partner > in all aspects
of their care
> Uses resources sensibly to achieve best outcomes
- World Health Organization (WHO) - -> Public branch of the United Nations
(UN)
> Health is not achieved at the individual level
> Health is achieved within the context of the pop and environment
surrounding the individual
, > Provides daily information upon studies and reports on a work level, also
establish world standards for antibiotics and vaccines
> Primarily focuses on health care workforce and education, environment
sanitation, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and primary care
- Healthy People 2020 - -> Implementing health promotion & disease
prevention strategies leads to lower expense for healthcare & improves the
length of the client's lifespan
> Goals guide the nurse in developing health promotion strategies to
improve individual & community health
> Determinants of health: diet, biology & genetics, environment, stress,
education, finances, social status, stigma, health policies
> Communicates high-priority health issues and actions such as: access to
healthcare, clinical preventative services, environmental quality, injury &
violence, maternal/infant/child health, mental health, nutrition/physical
activity/obesity, oral health, reproductive & sexual health, social
determinants, substance abuse tobacco
- Nightingale's Environmental Theory - -> Highlights the relationship
between and individual's environment and health
> Depicts health as a continuum
> Emphasizes preventative care
- Health Belief Model - -> Purpose is to predict or explain health behaviors
and assumes preventive health is primarily to avoid disease
> Emphasizes upon change within the individual level
> Describes taking action upon avoiding a disease based on:
>> Perceived susceptibility, seriousness, and threat of disease
>> Modifying factors like demographics or knowledge level
>> Perceived benefits minus perceived barriers to taking action
>> Cues to action such as media campaigns, disease effect on
family/friends, and recommendations from healthcare professionals
- Milio's Framework for Prevention - -> Complements health belief model,
but emphasizes change at the community level
> Identifies relationship b/w health deficits and availability of health
promoting resources
> Theorizes that behavior change within a lg # of people can ultimately lead
to social change
- Pender's Health Promotion Model - -> Similar to health belief model, but
does NOT consider health risk as a factor that provokes change
> Examines factors that affect individual actions to promote and protect
health
>> Personal factors (biological, psychological, sociocultural), behaviors,
abilities, and self-efficacy
