TEST BANK FOR FOUNDATIONS FOR
POPULATION HEALTH IN
COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
– 6TH EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE &
JEANETTE LANCASTER | COMPLETE
2025–2026 NURSING TEST BANK WITH
NCLEX-STYLE QUESTIONS, VERIFIED
ANSWERS, AND DETAILED RATIONALES
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Public Health Nursing and Population Health 1
Chapter 02 The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing 7
Chapter 03 US and Global Health Care 14
Chapter 04 Government, the Law, and Policy Activism 20
Chapter 05 Economics of US Health Care Delivery 28
Chapter 06 Ethics in Public and Community Health Nursing Practice 38
Chapter 07 Culture of Populations in Communities 47
Chapter 08 Environmental Health 56
Chapter 09 Evidence-Based Practice 64
Chapter 10 Epidemiological Applications 71
Chapter 11 Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 84
Chapter 12 Communicable and Infection Disease Risks 94
Chapter 13 Community Assessment and Evaluation 104
Chapter 14 Health Education in the Community 113
Chapter 15 Case Management 121
Chapter 16 Disaster Management 128
Chapter 17 Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation 136
Chapter 18 Program Management 142
Chapter 19 Healthcare Improvement in the Community 149
Chapter 20 Family Development, Family Nursing Assessment, and Genomics 159
Chapter 21 Family Health Risks 168
Chapter 22 Health Risks Across the Life Span 179
Chapter 23 Health Equity and Care of Vulnerable Populations 191
Chapter 24 Rural Health and Migrant Health 198
Chapter 25 Poverty, Homelessness, Teen Pregnancy, and Mental Illness 205
Chapter 26 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community 214
Chapter 27 Violence and Human Abuse 223
Chapter 28 Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels in Public Health 230
Chapter 29 The Faith Community Nurse 238
Chapter 30 The Nurse in Public Health, Home Health, Palliative Care, and Hospice 245
Chapter 31 The Nurse in the Schools 255
Chapter 32 The Nurse in Occupational Health 267
,Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing,
6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group‘s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate‘s needs.
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
CORRECT ANS : A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and
continuous care. These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric,
adult, or psychiatric mental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and
chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or
systems.
2. Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
CORRECT ANS : D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to
community-oriented nursing.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
CORRECT ANS : D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and
populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease
and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population
within it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals
and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions
in the community, and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
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, 4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the
20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
CORRECT ANS : C
There has to be indisputable evidence collected over time that public health policies and
programs were primarily responsible for increasing the average life span from 47 in 1900 to
78.6 years in 2017, an increase of approximately 60% in just over a century plus through
improvements in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4)
improving food and drug safety, (5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition,
hygiene, and housing. Although people are excited when a new drug is discovered that cures
a disease or when a new way to tr CORRECT ANS plant org CORRECT ANS is
perfected, it is important to know about the significant gains in the health of populations
that have come largely from public health accomplishments.
5. A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community.
Which of the following interventions would most likely be implemented by the nurse?
a. Provide free health care to all citizens
b. To increase the number of individuals with access to effective health care benefits
c. Lower the cost of health care to the American population
d. To lessen the governmental burden of providing health care to Americ CORRECT ANS
CORRECT ANS : B
The central feature in the Patie nfftoPrrdoatbelcetiConaraenAd cAt (ACA) of 2010 are the
mechanisms to increase the numbearltohfipnesoupr al en cwei.thT he care provided is
not necessarily free. While the cost of health care and the burden it places on the American
government are serious concerns, they are not the primary focus of ACA.
6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health
efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americ CORRECT ANS .
CORRECT ANS : C
The major premise of Healthy People 2010 was that the health of the individual cannot be
entirely separate from the health of the larger community. Public health practice focuses on
the community as a whole, and the effect of the community‘s health status (resources) on
the health of individuals, families, and groups. The goal is to prevent disease and disability
and promote and protect the health of the community as a whole. Public health can be
described as what society collectively does to ensure that conditions exist in which people
can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morality of health
disparities. The focus is on prevention of illness not on spending more on illness care.
Additionally, individual responsibility for making healthy choices is the directive for
lengthening life span not the role of the government.
POPULATION HEALTH IN
COMMUNITY/PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
– 6TH EDITION BY MARCIA STANHOPE &
JEANETTE LANCASTER | COMPLETE
2025–2026 NURSING TEST BANK WITH
NCLEX-STYLE QUESTIONS, VERIFIED
ANSWERS, AND DETAILED RATIONALES
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Public Health Nursing and Population Health 1
Chapter 02 The History of Public Health and Public and Community Health Nursing 7
Chapter 03 US and Global Health Care 14
Chapter 04 Government, the Law, and Policy Activism 20
Chapter 05 Economics of US Health Care Delivery 28
Chapter 06 Ethics in Public and Community Health Nursing Practice 38
Chapter 07 Culture of Populations in Communities 47
Chapter 08 Environmental Health 56
Chapter 09 Evidence-Based Practice 64
Chapter 10 Epidemiological Applications 71
Chapter 11 Infectious Disease Prevention and Control 84
Chapter 12 Communicable and Infection Disease Risks 94
Chapter 13 Community Assessment and Evaluation 104
Chapter 14 Health Education in the Community 113
Chapter 15 Case Management 121
Chapter 16 Disaster Management 128
Chapter 17 Public Health Surveillance and Outbreak Investigation 136
Chapter 18 Program Management 142
Chapter 19 Healthcare Improvement in the Community 149
Chapter 20 Family Development, Family Nursing Assessment, and Genomics 159
Chapter 21 Family Health Risks 168
Chapter 22 Health Risks Across the Life Span 179
Chapter 23 Health Equity and Care of Vulnerable Populations 191
Chapter 24 Rural Health and Migrant Health 198
Chapter 25 Poverty, Homelessness, Teen Pregnancy, and Mental Illness 205
Chapter 26 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problems in the Community 214
Chapter 27 Violence and Human Abuse 223
Chapter 28 Nursing Practice at the Local, State, and National Levels in Public Health 230
Chapter 29 The Faith Community Nurse 238
Chapter 30 The Nurse in Public Health, Home Health, Palliative Care, and Hospice 245
Chapter 31 The Nurse in the Schools 255
Chapter 32 The Nurse in Occupational Health 267
,Chapter 01: Public Health Nursing and Population Health
Stanhope: Foundations for Population Health in Community/Public Health Nursing,
6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which statement best describes community-based nursing?
a. A practice in which care is provided for individuals and families.
b. Providing care with a focus on the group‘s needs.
c. Giving care with a focus on the aggregate‘s needs.
d. A value system in which all clients receive optimal care.
CORRECT ANS : A
By definition, community-based nursing is a setting-specific practice in which care is
provided for “sick” individuals and families where they live, work, and attend school. The
emphasis is on acute and chronic care and the provision of comprehensive, coordinated, and
continuous care. These nurses may be generalists or specialists in maternal–infant, pediatric,
adult, or psychiatric mental health nursing. Community-based nursing emphasizes acute and
chronic care to individuals and families, rather than focusing on groups, aggregates, or
systems.
2. Which statement best describes the goal of community-oriented nursing?
a. Providing care to individuals and families
b. Providing care to manage acute or chronic conditions
c. Giving direct care to ill individuals within their family setting
d. To preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health and prevent disease
CORRECT ANS : D
By definition, community-oriented nursing has the goal of preserving, protecting, or
maintaining health and preventing disease to promote the quality of life. All nurses may
focus on individuals and families, give direct care to ill persons within their family setting,
and help manage acute or chronic conditions. These definitions are not specific to
community-oriented nursing.
3. Which of the following is the primary focus of public health nursing?
a. Families and groups
b. Illness-oriented care
c. Individuals within the family unit
d. Health care of communities and populations
CORRECT ANS : D
In public health nursing, the primary focus is on the health care of communities and
populations rather than on individuals, groups, and families. The goal is to prevent disease
and preserve, promote, restore, and protect health for the community and the population
within it. Community-based nurses deal primarily with illness-oriented care of individuals
and families across the life span. The aim is to manage acute and chronic health conditions
in the community, and the focus of practice is on individual or family-centered illness care.
1|Page
, 4. Which of the following is responsible for the dramatic increase in life expectancy during the
20th century?
a. Technology increases in the field of medical laboratory research
b. Advances in surgical techniques and procedures
c. Sanitation and other population-based prevention programs
d. Use of antibiotics to fight infections
CORRECT ANS : C
There has to be indisputable evidence collected over time that public health policies and
programs were primarily responsible for increasing the average life span from 47 in 1900 to
78.6 years in 2017, an increase of approximately 60% in just over a century plus through
improvements in (1) sanitation, (2) clean water supplies, (3) making workplaces safer, (4)
improving food and drug safety, (5) immunizing children, and (6) improving nutrition,
hygiene, and housing. Although people are excited when a new drug is discovered that cures
a disease or when a new way to tr CORRECT ANS plant org CORRECT ANS is
perfected, it is important to know about the significant gains in the health of populations
that have come largely from public health accomplishments.
5. A nurse is developing a plan to decrease the number of premature deaths in the community.
Which of the following interventions would most likely be implemented by the nurse?
a. Provide free health care to all citizens
b. To increase the number of individuals with access to effective health care benefits
c. Lower the cost of health care to the American population
d. To lessen the governmental burden of providing health care to Americ CORRECT ANS
CORRECT ANS : B
The central feature in the Patie nfftoPrrdoatbelcetiConaraenAd cAt (ACA) of 2010 are the
mechanisms to increase the numbearltohfipnesoupr al en cwei.thT he care provided is
not necessarily free. While the cost of health care and the burden it places on the American
government are serious concerns, they are not the primary focus of ACA.
6. What is the basic assumption stated by Healthy People 2010 as it relates to public health
efforts?
a. Health disparities among any groups are morally and legally wrong.
b. Health care is the most important priority in government planning and funding.
c. The health of individuals cannot be separated from the health of the community.
d. The government is responsible for lengthening the life span of Americ CORRECT ANS .
CORRECT ANS : C
The major premise of Healthy People 2010 was that the health of the individual cannot be
entirely separate from the health of the larger community. Public health practice focuses on
the community as a whole, and the effect of the community‘s health status (resources) on
the health of individuals, families, and groups. The goal is to prevent disease and disability
and promote and protect the health of the community as a whole. Public health can be
described as what society collectively does to ensure that conditions exist in which people
can be healthy. The basic assumptions of public health do not judge the morality of health
disparities. The focus is on prevention of illness not on spending more on illness care.
Additionally, individual responsibility for making healthy choices is the directive for
lengthening life span not the role of the government.
