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HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT HOSA QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY [GRADED A+] LATEST UPDATE
Terms in this set (402) Q & A
Healthy People 2020
-answer- an evidence-based 10-year report card describing health-care accomplishments
within the United States from the years 2000 to 2010 and a prescription for what needs to be
done between now and the year 2020
[Enable the nation to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and create a social and
physical environment] that <promotes good health, quality of life, healthy development, and
positive health behaviors across all life stages>
-answer- What are the overarching goals of the Healthy People 2020 plan?
The US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) published it in 2011
-answer- Who published Healthy People 2020 and when?
Infants, Children, Teens and Young Adults, and Older Adults and the Geriatric population
-answer- What are the four major age groups in Healthy People 2020?
Leading Health Indicators
-answer- Selected high priority issues for the current 10-year period
1. Access to health services
2. Clinical preventive services
3. Environmental quality
4. Injury and violence
5. Maternal, infant, and child health
6. Mental health
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7. Oral health
8. Reproductive and sexual health
9. Nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
10. Substance abuse
11. Tobacco
-answer- What are the leading health indicators for 2020?
Determinants of health
-answer- The range of social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status
Biology
-answer- Refers to the individual's genetic makeup, family history, and the physical and mental
health problems acquired during life
Behaviors
-answer- individual responses or reactions to internal stimuli and external conditions
Social environment
-answer- interactions with family, friends, coworkers, and others in the community
Physical environment
-answer- Thought of as that which can be seen, touched, heard, smelled, and tasted
Health status
-answer- Evaluating specific details of the determinants of health enables understanding of
this within the population
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Birth and death rates, life expectancy, morbidity from a certain disease, access to health care,
and health-insurance coverage
-answer- How can health status be measured?
Life expectancy
-answer- the average number of years a person is expected to live
Rank 50 with an average life expectancy of 78.49 years
-answer- **Where does the United States rank on life expectancy?
Gender, race, and education status and income
-answer- Life expectancy can be measured in terms of what?
Infant mortality rate
-answer- The number of deaths that occur before 1 year of age per 1000 live births
World Health Organization (WHO)
-answer- Which organization developed efforts towards worldwide health improvement?
UN Millenium Declaration
-answer- What stated a series of goals, targets, and indicators relating to health and the
alleviation of poverty?
1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
2. Promoting gender equality and empowering women
3. Reducing child mortality
4. Improving maternal health
5. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other endemic diseases
6. Ensuring environmental sustainability
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7. Establishing a global partnership to achieve the goals
-answer- What are the current Millennium Declaration goals for global health?
Standards of Practice
-answer- The foundations of laws related to consumer protection
In 1750 Philadelphia
-answer- When and where was the first hospital for the poor established?
Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing
-answer- What was the name of the first nursing school in 1873 New York?
Clara Barton
-answer- Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
The Mayo brothers
-answer- Who first came up with the idea of private-office healthcare practices in 1887?
American Medical Association, Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation
-answer- What three organizations advocated professional care and devalued self care?
Plan of care
-answer- Developed as a tool for communication among team members and patients; Can be
an individual patient plan of care, family plan of care, or hospital care path that outlines the
needs of the patient and planned approach to meet those needs
Nurse practice acts
-answer- Define the scope of practice for nurses within that state
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT HOSA QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS ALREADY [GRADED A+] LATEST UPDATE
Terms in this set (402) Q & A
Healthy People 2020
-answer- an evidence-based 10-year report card describing health-care accomplishments
within the United States from the years 2000 to 2010 and a prescription for what needs to be
done between now and the year 2020
[Enable the nation to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and create a social and
physical environment] that <promotes good health, quality of life, healthy development, and
positive health behaviors across all life stages>
-answer- What are the overarching goals of the Healthy People 2020 plan?
The US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) published it in 2011
-answer- Who published Healthy People 2020 and when?
Infants, Children, Teens and Young Adults, and Older Adults and the Geriatric population
-answer- What are the four major age groups in Healthy People 2020?
Leading Health Indicators
-answer- Selected high priority issues for the current 10-year period
1. Access to health services
2. Clinical preventive services
3. Environmental quality
4. Injury and violence
5. Maternal, infant, and child health
6. Mental health
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7. Oral health
8. Reproductive and sexual health
9. Nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
10. Substance abuse
11. Tobacco
-answer- What are the leading health indicators for 2020?
Determinants of health
-answer- The range of social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status
Biology
-answer- Refers to the individual's genetic makeup, family history, and the physical and mental
health problems acquired during life
Behaviors
-answer- individual responses or reactions to internal stimuli and external conditions
Social environment
-answer- interactions with family, friends, coworkers, and others in the community
Physical environment
-answer- Thought of as that which can be seen, touched, heard, smelled, and tasted
Health status
-answer- Evaluating specific details of the determinants of health enables understanding of
this within the population
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Birth and death rates, life expectancy, morbidity from a certain disease, access to health care,
and health-insurance coverage
-answer- How can health status be measured?
Life expectancy
-answer- the average number of years a person is expected to live
Rank 50 with an average life expectancy of 78.49 years
-answer- **Where does the United States rank on life expectancy?
Gender, race, and education status and income
-answer- Life expectancy can be measured in terms of what?
Infant mortality rate
-answer- The number of deaths that occur before 1 year of age per 1000 live births
World Health Organization (WHO)
-answer- Which organization developed efforts towards worldwide health improvement?
UN Millenium Declaration
-answer- What stated a series of goals, targets, and indicators relating to health and the
alleviation of poverty?
1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
2. Promoting gender equality and empowering women
3. Reducing child mortality
4. Improving maternal health
5. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other endemic diseases
6. Ensuring environmental sustainability
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7. Establishing a global partnership to achieve the goals
-answer- What are the current Millennium Declaration goals for global health?
Standards of Practice
-answer- The foundations of laws related to consumer protection
In 1750 Philadelphia
-answer- When and where was the first hospital for the poor established?
Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing
-answer- What was the name of the first nursing school in 1873 New York?
Clara Barton
-answer- Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
The Mayo brothers
-answer- Who first came up with the idea of private-office healthcare practices in 1887?
American Medical Association, Rockefeller Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation
-answer- What three organizations advocated professional care and devalued self care?
Plan of care
-answer- Developed as a tool for communication among team members and patients; Can be
an individual patient plan of care, family plan of care, or hospital care path that outlines the
needs of the patient and planned approach to meet those needs
Nurse practice acts
-answer- Define the scope of practice for nurses within that state
