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TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing
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ss Practice:Caring for Populations 2nd Edition by Christine
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ss L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ss ss ss
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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Multiple Choice ss ss
Answers are at the end of Each chapter ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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ss 1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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ss issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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ss develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
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ss from two perspectives:
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ss 2. A nursing 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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ss disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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infections,and
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2. Promotion of primary care ss ss ss
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
ss earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations ss ss
ss 3. If the international medical community was working to contain several
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ss worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Healthss ss ss ss ss ss ss ss
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1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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ss 4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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ss Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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ss Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
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ss there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
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ss supportthe optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the
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following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment