TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
2. Optimizing Population Health
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
4. Introduction to Community Assessment
5. Health Program Planning
6. Environmental Health
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
9. Communicable Diseases
10. Noncommunicable Diseases
11. Mental Health
12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
13. Injury and Violence
III. Public Health Planning
14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
19. Health Planning for School Settings
20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
Multiple Choice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. 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
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