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TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine L.
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Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS j j j
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
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2. Optimizing Population Health
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3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
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4. Introduction to Community Assessment
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5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health
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II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
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8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases
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10. Noncommunicable Diseases
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11. Mental Health
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12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
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13. Injury and Violence
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III. Public Health Planning
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14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
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22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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MultipleChoice j j
Answers are at the end of Each chapter j j j j j j j
Identify thechoice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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j 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issuewith
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an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop effective
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nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from two
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perspectives:
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j 2. Anursing student is studying public health.She learns that,according to
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include
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diseaseprevention,promotinghealth, controlof communicable
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infections,and
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1. Riskassessment fordisease j j j
2. Promotion of primary care j j j
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the j j j j j j j
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmentalsafetyregulations j j
j 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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Organization(WHO),which is:
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1. Thepublic health armof the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the j j j j j j j
globalpopulation.
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4. All of the above. j j j
j 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that there
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are three core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe
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optimumconditions forpublic health.Which oneof the following is notoneof
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these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment