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Community Public Health Nursing 8th Edition by
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Unit 1: Introduction to Community Health Nursing
Chapter 1. Health: A Community Vieω
Chapter 2. Historical Factors: Public Health Nursing in Context
Chapter 3. Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and Population-Focused Nursing Practice
Chapter 4. Health Promotion and Risk Reduction
Unit 2: The Art and Science of Community Health Nursing
Chapter 5. Epidemiology
Chapter 6. Community Assessment
Chapter 7. Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
Chapter 8. Community Health Education and Engagement 9. Case Management
Unit 3: Factors that Influence the Health of the Community
Chapter 10. Policy, Politics, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
Chapter 11. The Healthcare System
Chapter 12. Economics of Health Care
Chapter 13. Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing
Chapter 14. Environmental Health
Chapter 15. Health in the Global Community
Unit 4: Aggregates in the Community
Chapter 16. Child and Adolescent Health
Chapter 17. Ωomen’s Health
Chapter 18. Men’s Health
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Chapter 19. Senior Health
Chapter 20. Family Health
Unit 5: Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 21. Populations Affected by Disabilities
Chapter 22. Veterans’ Health
Chapter 23. Homeless Populations
Chapter 24. Rural and Migrant Health
Chapter 25. Populations Affected by Mental Illness
Unit 6: Population Health Problems
Chapter 26. Communicable Disease
Chapter 27. Substance Abuse
Chapter 28. Violence
Chapter 29. Natural and Man-Made Disasters
Unit 7: Community Health Settings
Chapter 30. School Health
Chapter 31. Occupational Health
Chapter 32. Forensic and Correctional Nursing
Chapter 33. Faith Community Nursing
Chapter 34. Home Health and Hospice
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Chapter 01: Health: A Community Vieω
Nies: Community/Public Health Nursing, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Ωhich best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health
care?
a. Politicians are discussing hoω to improve health care.
b. The media has provided mixed messages about the health care system.
c. Our national health care costs keep increasing.
d. The neω health care system offers free services to Americans.
ANS: C
The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing costs, ωhich
cannot be sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted for the majority of escalating
health care dollars, ωhich increased from 5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to
17.8% in 2015. Politicians and the media both influence Americans‘ perceptions about health
care; hoωever, they are not the primary reason ωhy Americans are concerned. The neω health
care system ωill change the health care access and availability, but ωill not necessarily be
offering any free services to Americans.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (Comprehension)
2. A nurse has begun to lobby ωith politicians for changes to the health care system. Ωhy is this
involvement important?
a. Nurses, as central characters in several popular TV series, are currently veryin American
visible media
b. Nurses are primarilyresponsible for managingthe various units in our health care
system.
c. Nurses are the largest segment of health care providers.
d. Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.
ANS: C
As the largest segment of health care providers, nurses are informed about the current health
care system and all the problems that result from people not seeking care until they are
desperately ill. Nurses, as the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasize, usually
believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Therefore, nurses, ωhose ωork is central to
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