Population Health
Conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and worship that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks
What are social determinants of health?
Screening, surveillance, early detection, and treatment of a disease
What is secondary prevention?
The attitudes, knowledge, and skills to provide quality care to culturally diverse populations
What is cultural competency?
Any contact with a hazardous substance that occurs within an environmental context
What is exposure?
Community health nurses in this setting may help coordinate IEPs/IHPs
What is school nursing?
Data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade
What is Healthy People 2030?
Addressing risk, social, and genetic factors to prevent development of diseases
What is primary prevention?
Continual process of self-awareness about one’s own culture; acknowledgement that we approach others as equal with respect for their beliefs and cultural norms
What is cultural humility?
A population that is vulnerable to environmental hazards because of bioaccumulation
Who are older adults?
The goal of care in this setting is to provide care and comfort rather than cure or treatment
What is hospice?
The founder of community health nursing in the U.S. and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City
Who is Lillian Wald?
Improving quality of life, prevention of disability, and premature death
What is tertiary prevention?
Art, music, dress, dance, religious beliefs, family role expectations
What is cultural patterns?
The point on the epidemiologic triangle describing the susceptible human or animal who harbors and nourishes a disease-causing agent
What is the host?
Clients in this setting are at high risk for lead poisoning
What is urban?
The public health core function that includes making sure adequate health care personnel and services are accessible
What is assurance?
Nutrition counseling for management of Crohn’s
What is tertiary prevention?
The belief that you have little power over your own destiny
What is an external locus of control?
A property with hazardous waste contamination considered severe or posing a threat to human life
What is a Superfund site?
The largest single payer for home care services in the United States
What is Medicare?
A windshield survey is an example of this public health core function
What is assessment?
Advocating for policies that would ban companies from selling flavored tobacco products
What is primary prevention?
The degree to which one has assimilated into the dominant culture
What is acculturation?
A mnemonic used to evaluate an individual’s environmental health risk
What is IPREPARE?
Federally qualified health care centers
What is a nurse-led health center?