CHAPTER 1: PUBLIC
HEALTH AND NURSING
PRACTICE STUDY GUIDE
VERIFIED
Instructions
All answers are underlined.
Questions
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
3.Organization of medical and nursing services for the
early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4.Governmental safety regulations <answer>3
A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead
model to help herself and other local practitioners
understand health in populations. She understands
that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model
assumes that:
1.There are multiple determinants of health, and thus
multiple strategies are needed.
2.A population and environmental approach is
essential.
3.Linkages and relationships are crucial.
4.All of the above. <answer>4
As a PHN in a small local public health department,
you understand that based on federal mandates your
public health department routinely performs all but
which of the following?
HEALTH AND NURSING
PRACTICE STUDY GUIDE
VERIFIED
Instructions
All answers are underlined.
Questions
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
3.Organization of medical and nursing services for the
early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
4.Governmental safety regulations <answer>3
A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead
model to help herself and other local practitioners
understand health in populations. She understands
that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model
assumes that:
1.There are multiple determinants of health, and thus
multiple strategies are needed.
2.A population and environmental approach is
essential.
3.Linkages and relationships are crucial.
4.All of the above. <answer>4
As a PHN in a small local public health department,
you understand that based on federal mandates your
public health department routinely performs all but
which of the following?
