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Practice:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine
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L. Savage, Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLEOF CONTENTS 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 j j
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice j j j
4. Introduction to Community Assessment j j j
5. Health Program Planning
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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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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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Chapter1:Public Health andNursingPractice
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Identifythechoice thatbestcompletesthestatementor answers thequestion.
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1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health
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2. Anursing studentis studying publichealth.She learns that,accordingto
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health
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include disease prevention, promoting health, control of
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communicable infections,and
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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 healtharmof the United Nations.
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globalpopulation.
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3. Workingwithnursestopromote publichealthinterventions.
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4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine
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j Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that
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j there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively
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Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment