Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 – 22 Updated 2025, Complete
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith 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
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the 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
supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 – 22 Updated 2025, Complete
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith 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
, Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice: Caring for Populations
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
Organization(WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the
globalpopulation.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the 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
supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
following is notone of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
