QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED DETAILED
ANSWERS
Preserve health of the community and surrounding populations by focusing on the health promotion
and health maintenance of individuals, families, and groups within the community - answer ✔✔-
Community/ Public health Goal
-Prevent disease
-Prolong life
-Promote heath - answer ✔✔-Public health goals
-Population based
-Grounded in social justice
-Relies on science of epidemiology
-Focus on health promotion and prevention
-Long-term commitment to the community - answer ✔✔-Public health
-Relationship-based
-Grounded in an ethic of caring
-Holistic
-Sensitivity to diversity
-Independent practice - answer ✔✔-Nursing
All nursing care provided outside of acute care in the "community".
Provision of personal care to individuals and families in the community. - answer ✔✔-Community-based
nursing
,Acute and chronic care and includes such practice areas as home health
nursing and nursing in outpatient or ambulatory settings - answer ✔✔-Community-based nursing
emphasis
All nursing care is provided with the overall focus of the well being of the community. - answer ✔✔-
Community-oriented care
-Spatial
-Defined area with boundaries, resides on map = community
-Ex: United States Census, Maricopa county - answer ✔✔-Geopolitical/ geographical
-Belonging
-Demographic: shared characteristic
-Functional: shared interest
-Bound together by having something in common.
-Ex: Students at chamberlain, member of certain church, banner hospital employees, people in military,
cancer survivor - answer ✔✔-Phenomenological
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the distribution of money,
power, and resources at global, national, and local levels. - answer ✔✔-Social determinants of health
-Immigrants = culture
-Low income = poverty #1
-Socioeconomic status
-Housing
-Education
-Access to healthy food and public services
-Language
-Geography
-Gender
, -Religion - answer ✔✔-Social determinants affect us positively and negatively
-Unhealthy diet
-Physical inactivity
-Tobacco use
-Abuse of alcohol - answer ✔✔-Health disparities
Tobacco = 20 % of annual US deaths - answer ✔✔-#1 cause of death
-Improved life expectancy
-Population based prevention programs
-Potential
-Funding - answer ✔✔-Benefits of public health practice
Healthy people in healthy communities - answer ✔✔-Public Health in America Vision:
-Promote physical and mental health
-Prevent disease, injury, and disability - answer ✔✔-Public Health in America Mission:
-3 core functions:
-Assessment
-Policy development
-Assurance - answer ✔✔-Essential Public Health Services
Monitor health, diagnose health problems - answer ✔✔-Assessment
Educate, inform, empower, develop policies and plans to support health - answer ✔✔-Policy
development