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Populations
TEST BANK Public/Community Health and Nursing Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition
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by Christine
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L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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 jj jj
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice jj jj jj
4. Introduction to Community Assessment jj jj jj
5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health jj
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 jj
10. Noncommunicable Diseases jj
11. Mental Health jj
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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Answers are at the end of Each chapter jj jj jj jj jj jj jj
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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jj issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develop
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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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jj disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the jj jj jj jj jj jj jj
earlydiagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations jj jj
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. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well-being for the jj jj jj jj jj jj jj
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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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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optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is notone
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of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment