1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must ap- 4. Individual; popu-
proach a public health issue with an understanding lation
of the related underlying risk factors to develop ef-
fective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
factors from two perspectives:
2. If the international medical community was working 4. All of the above
to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would
look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which
is:
3. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the 1. Prevention
Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,
stated in their report, The Future of the Public's Health,
that there are three core functions that society carries
out to collectively support the optimum conditions for
public health. Which one of the following is not one of
these functions?
4. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both 1. An in-
noncommunicable (chronic) and communicable dis- creased demand
ease (NCD). The most pressing issue from a public for long-term care
health perspective based on this increase is:
5. The PHN completed a community assessment and 1. Upstream deter-
found that the obesity rate in one of the neighbor- minants of health
hoods was higher than the other neighborhoods in
the county. She suspects that this is partially due to
limited access to full-service grocery stores and a lack
of dedicated safe venues for exercise. Assuming her
conclusion is correct, what category or categories of
determinants of health would these issues within the
community fall into?
6. Diversity refers to all of but which of these concepts? 4.
Environment
7.
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