NR 442 Quiz 1 and Exam 1 Notes from Class Questions with
Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: What is an aggregate?
Answer: - A community compose of people who have common characteristics
Question 2: What are some examples of aggregates?
Answer: - Senior citizens
- Ethnic backgrounds
- Religious organizations
Question 3: What does a community of solution mean?
Answer: - Common problems that unite individuals
Question 4: What must a community have in order to qualify as a community?
Answer: - Location
- Space in time
- Social system
Question 5: What does a Geographic community encompass?
Answer: - Less formalized areas that lack oflcial geopolitical boundaries
Question 6: What are aspects of a health - community?
Answer: Physical environments
- Education
- Safety/ transportation
- Political government
- Health and Social services
- Communications
- Economics
- Recreation
Question 7: What does the Healthy Cities - Positive and Healthy places model urge?
Answer: health changes
Question 8: What does the Healthy Cities - interconnectedness and Healthy places model stress?
Answer: between people, the public, and private sectors
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,Question 9: What is the windshield survey utilized for?
Answer: - To make organized observations of the area and it people
Question 10: How might a windshield survey be performed?
Answer: - Via Driving or Walking to gain an understanding of the environmental layout
Question 11: What does the Windshield survey locate?
Answer: - Environmental layout
- Geographic features
- Services
- Businesses
- Industries
Question 12: What are the stages in disease history?
Answer: - Hunting and Gathering
- Settled villages
- Preindustrial cities
- Industrial cities
- Present stage
Question 13: What is the definition of an Endemic?
Answer: - Diseases that are always present within the population
Question 14: What is an example of an Endemic disease?
Answer: - Cold
- Pneumonia
Question 15: What is the definition of an Epidemic?
Answer: - Diseases that are not always in a population but flare up on occasion
Question 16: What is an example of an Epidemic?
Answer: - Diphtheria
- Measles
Question 17: What is the definition of a pandemic?
Answer: - The existence of disease in a large proportion of the population
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,Question 18: What are some types of pandemics?
Answer: - Global pandemic
Question 19: What are some examples of pandemics?
Answer: - HIV
- AIDS
- Influenza type A
Question 20: What is Health Visiting?
Answer: - Visiting homes to provide information to improve health
Question 21: What does Upstream Thinking actions focus on?
Answer: Modification of the following precursors of poor health throughout the world:
- economic
- Political
- Environmental
Question 22: What does the census tract do?
Answer: - It subdivides larger communities
Question 23: What does the Census Tract facilitate?
Answer: - the organization of resident information in specific community geographic locales.
Question 24: What senses does a nurse utilize in the windshield survey?
Answer: - Sight
- Sense
- Sound
Question 25: What does a metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) consist of?
Answer: - central city with more than 50,000 people including the associated suburban or adjacent
counties that yields a total Metropolitan area with more than 100,000 people
Question 26: What forms the basis of data of the VITAL Statistics?
Answer: - Births
- Deaths
- Marriages
- Divorces
- Adoptions
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, Question 27: What does the Community Assessment Parameter Geography influence?
Answer: - Nature of the health problems and access to health care
Question 28: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Population important?
Answer: - Describes the population served and suggests their health risks and needs
- Suggests growth or decline
- increases stress, may increase exposure to a communicable disease
Question 29: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Environment important?
Answer: - It impacts the quality of life and the nature of the environmental health problems
- Reflects community resources
- Suggests socioeconomic issues
Question 30: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Industry important?
Answer: - Impacts the social class, access to health care, and resources
- Influences nature of health problems
Question 31: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Education important?
Answer: Influences the following:
- socioeconomic status
- access to health care
- ability to read and understand health information
Question 32: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Recreation important?
Answer: Reflects the following:
- Quality of Life
- Resources available to community
- Concern for young and disadvantaged
Question 33: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Religion important?
Answer: Influences the following:
- Values in the community by organizing common interests and concerns Reflects on the following:
- involvement of members
- Community skills
- and resources the community needs
Question 34: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Communication important?
Answer: - Reflects concerns and needs of the community
- Contains networks and resources available for health-related use
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Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: What is an aggregate?
Answer: - A community compose of people who have common characteristics
Question 2: What are some examples of aggregates?
Answer: - Senior citizens
- Ethnic backgrounds
- Religious organizations
Question 3: What does a community of solution mean?
Answer: - Common problems that unite individuals
Question 4: What must a community have in order to qualify as a community?
Answer: - Location
- Space in time
- Social system
Question 5: What does a Geographic community encompass?
Answer: - Less formalized areas that lack oflcial geopolitical boundaries
Question 6: What are aspects of a health - community?
Answer: Physical environments
- Education
- Safety/ transportation
- Political government
- Health and Social services
- Communications
- Economics
- Recreation
Question 7: What does the Healthy Cities - Positive and Healthy places model urge?
Answer: health changes
Question 8: What does the Healthy Cities - interconnectedness and Healthy places model stress?
Answer: between people, the public, and private sectors
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,Question 9: What is the windshield survey utilized for?
Answer: - To make organized observations of the area and it people
Question 10: How might a windshield survey be performed?
Answer: - Via Driving or Walking to gain an understanding of the environmental layout
Question 11: What does the Windshield survey locate?
Answer: - Environmental layout
- Geographic features
- Services
- Businesses
- Industries
Question 12: What are the stages in disease history?
Answer: - Hunting and Gathering
- Settled villages
- Preindustrial cities
- Industrial cities
- Present stage
Question 13: What is the definition of an Endemic?
Answer: - Diseases that are always present within the population
Question 14: What is an example of an Endemic disease?
Answer: - Cold
- Pneumonia
Question 15: What is the definition of an Epidemic?
Answer: - Diseases that are not always in a population but flare up on occasion
Question 16: What is an example of an Epidemic?
Answer: - Diphtheria
- Measles
Question 17: What is the definition of a pandemic?
Answer: - The existence of disease in a large proportion of the population
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,Question 18: What are some types of pandemics?
Answer: - Global pandemic
Question 19: What are some examples of pandemics?
Answer: - HIV
- AIDS
- Influenza type A
Question 20: What is Health Visiting?
Answer: - Visiting homes to provide information to improve health
Question 21: What does Upstream Thinking actions focus on?
Answer: Modification of the following precursors of poor health throughout the world:
- economic
- Political
- Environmental
Question 22: What does the census tract do?
Answer: - It subdivides larger communities
Question 23: What does the Census Tract facilitate?
Answer: - the organization of resident information in specific community geographic locales.
Question 24: What senses does a nurse utilize in the windshield survey?
Answer: - Sight
- Sense
- Sound
Question 25: What does a metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) consist of?
Answer: - central city with more than 50,000 people including the associated suburban or adjacent
counties that yields a total Metropolitan area with more than 100,000 people
Question 26: What forms the basis of data of the VITAL Statistics?
Answer: - Births
- Deaths
- Marriages
- Divorces
- Adoptions
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, Question 27: What does the Community Assessment Parameter Geography influence?
Answer: - Nature of the health problems and access to health care
Question 28: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Population important?
Answer: - Describes the population served and suggests their health risks and needs
- Suggests growth or decline
- increases stress, may increase exposure to a communicable disease
Question 29: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Environment important?
Answer: - It impacts the quality of life and the nature of the environmental health problems
- Reflects community resources
- Suggests socioeconomic issues
Question 30: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Industry important?
Answer: - Impacts the social class, access to health care, and resources
- Influences nature of health problems
Question 31: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Education important?
Answer: Influences the following:
- socioeconomic status
- access to health care
- ability to read and understand health information
Question 32: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Recreation important?
Answer: Reflects the following:
- Quality of Life
- Resources available to community
- Concern for young and disadvantaged
Question 33: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Religion important?
Answer: Influences the following:
- Values in the community by organizing common interests and concerns Reflects on the following:
- involvement of members
- Community skills
- and resources the community needs
Question 34: Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Communication important?
Answer: - Reflects concerns and needs of the community
- Contains networks and resources available for health-related use
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