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rn community health Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Public health Ans: Health promotion and disease prevention, has a
much wider scope that can span from a town of people to a whole nation.
Community health Ans: Health promotion in a specific geographic area,
looks at a community of people all living in a defined area.
Population health Ans: Focuses on needs of a specific group, has a
narrow focus on a specific subset of a population such as those with
diabetes or with sickle cell.
Community Ans: A collective group in the same location that may share
culture, religion, ethnicity, health issues, or socioeconomic
circumstances.
Client in community health nursing Ans: The community or population
and not one individual person.
Ecological model Ans: Factors that influence health behaviors in society,
shows how internal and external factors affect behavior.
Health belief model Ans: Internal motivation for improving health,
specifically someone's perceptions of their own health and any possible
threats to it.
Social cognitive theory Ans: Beliefs about self and interpersonal
relationships, provides opportunities for social support through
reinforcements to achieve behavior change.
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Transtheoretical stages of change model Ans: Someone's readiness to
adopt healthy behaviors, consisting of 6 stages of change.
Pre-contemplative stage Ans: Not ready for change, do not see a need
to change.
Contemplative stage Ans: Sees the need for change but is blocked by
barriers to adopt the change.
Preparation stage Ans: Creating a plan to change.
Action stage Ans: Making modifications in their behaviors and
implementing plan to change.
Maintenance stage Ans: Implementing and maintaining changes and
preventing relapse.
Termination stage Ans: No temptation to relapse, person has made a
lifelong change.
Upstream thinking Ans: Focus on larger social issues, seeks to
implement wide reaching, systemic change.
Downstream thinking Ans: Thinking about current problems, narrow
focus.
Penders health promotion model Ans: Internal motivation factors to
adopt healthy lifestyles, helps nurses understand factors that affect an
individual's health.
Population health nursing Ans: Assists clients in managing health
conditions in community, connects clients to community resources.
Community health nursing Ans: Addresses social determinants of
health, practice settings include schools, workplaces, churches,
correctional institutions, home health.
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Core functions of public health Ans: Assessment, policy development,
and assurance to protect the health of the public at all levels of society.
Healthy People 2030 Ans: Broad national goals for public health,
influences public health policy, re-evaluated every 10 years.
Goals Ans: Attain healthy thriving lives and being free of preventable
diseases, injuries, and premature death; eliminate health disparities,
achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve well-being of
all; create social, physical and economic environments that promote well-
being.
Social determinants of health Ans: External factors that influence
health. Defined as the conditions in the environments where people are
born, live, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of
health, functioning, and quality of life.
Categories of social determinants of health Ans: Five categories:
economic stability, access to education, access to health care,
neighborhood/environment, social and community context.
Primary Prevention Ans: Targets healthy people and communities,
these people do NOT have an illness or disease and are well/healthy.
Goal: prevention of illness. Ex: immunizations, hand hygiene, education
on nutrition, smoking cessation, prenatal, family planning, and safety.
Secondary Prevention Ans: Targets those at risk for illness. Goal: early
detection and treatment. Ex: BP screenings, glucose screenings, STD
tests, community assessments, cancer screenings, TB tests, lead
exposure tests.
Tertiary Prevention Ans: Targets people with health conditions. Goals:
minimize complications and maximize health. Ex: education on disease
management, rehab, long term social support, home health services,
PT/OT, support groups.
WHO Ans: World Health Organization; addresses global emergencies,
improve health care inequities, promote health worldwide. Sustainable
rn community health Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
Public health Ans: Health promotion and disease prevention, has a
much wider scope that can span from a town of people to a whole nation.
Community health Ans: Health promotion in a specific geographic area,
looks at a community of people all living in a defined area.
Population health Ans: Focuses on needs of a specific group, has a
narrow focus on a specific subset of a population such as those with
diabetes or with sickle cell.
Community Ans: A collective group in the same location that may share
culture, religion, ethnicity, health issues, or socioeconomic
circumstances.
Client in community health nursing Ans: The community or population
and not one individual person.
Ecological model Ans: Factors that influence health behaviors in society,
shows how internal and external factors affect behavior.
Health belief model Ans: Internal motivation for improving health,
specifically someone's perceptions of their own health and any possible
threats to it.
Social cognitive theory Ans: Beliefs about self and interpersonal
relationships, provides opportunities for social support through
reinforcements to achieve behavior change.
, Page | 2
Transtheoretical stages of change model Ans: Someone's readiness to
adopt healthy behaviors, consisting of 6 stages of change.
Pre-contemplative stage Ans: Not ready for change, do not see a need
to change.
Contemplative stage Ans: Sees the need for change but is blocked by
barriers to adopt the change.
Preparation stage Ans: Creating a plan to change.
Action stage Ans: Making modifications in their behaviors and
implementing plan to change.
Maintenance stage Ans: Implementing and maintaining changes and
preventing relapse.
Termination stage Ans: No temptation to relapse, person has made a
lifelong change.
Upstream thinking Ans: Focus on larger social issues, seeks to
implement wide reaching, systemic change.
Downstream thinking Ans: Thinking about current problems, narrow
focus.
Penders health promotion model Ans: Internal motivation factors to
adopt healthy lifestyles, helps nurses understand factors that affect an
individual's health.
Population health nursing Ans: Assists clients in managing health
conditions in community, connects clients to community resources.
Community health nursing Ans: Addresses social determinants of
health, practice settings include schools, workplaces, churches,
correctional institutions, home health.
, Page | 3
Core functions of public health Ans: Assessment, policy development,
and assurance to protect the health of the public at all levels of society.
Healthy People 2030 Ans: Broad national goals for public health,
influences public health policy, re-evaluated every 10 years.
Goals Ans: Attain healthy thriving lives and being free of preventable
diseases, injuries, and premature death; eliminate health disparities,
achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve well-being of
all; create social, physical and economic environments that promote well-
being.
Social determinants of health Ans: External factors that influence
health. Defined as the conditions in the environments where people are
born, live, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of
health, functioning, and quality of life.
Categories of social determinants of health Ans: Five categories:
economic stability, access to education, access to health care,
neighborhood/environment, social and community context.
Primary Prevention Ans: Targets healthy people and communities,
these people do NOT have an illness or disease and are well/healthy.
Goal: prevention of illness. Ex: immunizations, hand hygiene, education
on nutrition, smoking cessation, prenatal, family planning, and safety.
Secondary Prevention Ans: Targets those at risk for illness. Goal: early
detection and treatment. Ex: BP screenings, glucose screenings, STD
tests, community assessments, cancer screenings, TB tests, lead
exposure tests.
Tertiary Prevention Ans: Targets people with health conditions. Goals:
minimize complications and maximize health. Ex: education on disease
management, rehab, long term social support, home health services,
PT/OT, support groups.
WHO Ans: World Health Organization; addresses global emergencies,
improve health care inequities, promote health worldwide. Sustainable
