public health practice
What is community/public health nursing associated with? - answer health and identifi-
cation of populations at risk rather than an episodic response to patient demand
What kinda of focus does community/public health nursing have? - answer population
focused that promotes health and welfare of patients throughout lifespan
What 3 things does public health focus on? - answer preventing disease
Prolonging life
Promoting health and efficiency through community efforts
What are examples of community efforts? - answer sanitation of environment
Control of infections
Personal hygiene education
Early diagnosis
Prevention of disease
True or false: health promotion and disease prevention are used interchangeably? - an-
swer true
How does community health extend the realm of public health? - answer it includes or-
ganized health efforts at the community level through both government and private efforts
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,What are social determinants of health? - answer education access
Education quality
Economic stability
Health care access
Health care quality
Neighborhood environment
Built environment
Social context
Community context
What are healthy people 2030 leading health indicators? - answer access to health ser-
vices
Clinical preventive services
Environmental quality
Injury and violence
Maternal/infant/child health
Mental health
Nutrition/phys activity/obesity
Oral health
Reproductive/sexual health
Social determinants
Substance abuse
What is the definition of determinants of health - answer patient or environmental fac-
tors that influence the patients health
Examples of determinants of health (not just social determinants) - answer nutrition
Social support
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,Stress
Education
Finances
Transportation
Housing
Genetics
Hygiene
What are health indicators - answer mortality rates
Disease prevalence
Obesity
Physical exercise
Smoking
Drugs
Alcohol
What defines a community - answer a group of people/institutions that share a geo-
graphic or civic parameters. Often is social.
Who does community and public health nursing practice take care of? - answer individu-
als
Families
Aggregates
The community
What is the nurses role? - answer protect, promote, preserve & maintain health while
preventing disease
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, What is an aggregate - answer target population who at the same place at the same time
but have no other connection to each other
What were florence nightingale's focuses? - answer public health principles
Sanitation & affects
Preventative care
Environmental determinants
Education reform for nurses
What are district nurses? - answer work in the uk managing care within the community
What are visiting nurses? - answer home health and hospice specialists
Who is lilian wald - answer known as the mother of public health
What is lilian wald found? - answer the henry street settlement in nyc
Naacp
What was lilian wald known for? - answer equal rights for minorities and women
Child labor laws & education
Social welfare
Who is mary breckenridge - answer nurse midwife and founder of the frontier nursing
service (fns)
What did the fns provide? - answer comprehensive family medical care to mountain peo-
ple of rural kentucky
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