Levels of Prevention
This element is a primary prevention example for globalization in the 21st century.
What is safe water and sanitation?
This is a food that a culturally comptent nurse would leave off the tray of a person who practices Islam.
What is pork?
This organization began to focus on health promotion in the 1980s.
What is WHO - World Health Organization?
These are methods of epidemiology.
What is public health surveillance; disease investigation; research and analytic studies; and program evaluation?
This is education nurses can give regarding air pollution to patients.
What is exercising in the early morning and away from busy roads or industrial areas should be recommended, and so should exercising indoors when pollutants are especially high outdoors or patients could trying a less-intense outdoor activity?
This is an example of a secondary prevention.
What is a lead screening for pediatrics?
This is a view of cultural competence.
What is recognizing that people with cultural backgrounds different from the nurses' own?
These are some main points of Lillian Ward's work.
What is targeting the root causes of ill health, taking on institutions, politics, and social policy?
Prevalence is this
What is the number of people who were infected
at a given time divided by the total population?
These are the 4 characteristics of empowerment
What is faith in people, trust, hope in positive transformations and critical thinking?
Giving flu immunizations at a health fair is this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
This is the best way for nurses to self-examine their own cultural competence.
What is acknowledgment and awareness of one’s own culture and a willingness to explore one’s own feelings and biases?
These are factors that contribute to the nursing shortage in low-resource countries
What are challenges related to HIV/AIDS, high-stress environments, gender-based discrimination and violence, and international migration of nurses?
This type of research that is problem focused and involves all participants
What is participatory?
This is an example of a principle of epidemiology.
What is analyzing incidence and tracking outcomes of interventions for a particular disease or condition?
Cardiac rehab is an example of this level of prevention.
What is tertiary?
A person of this culture does not like to have cold drinks.
What is Chinese?
These are some of the CDC's noteworthy achievements from 2000-2010
What is: Vaccine-preventable diseases; Prevention and control of infectious diseases; Tobacco control; Maternal and infant health; Motor vehicle safety; Cardiovascular disease prevention; Occupational safety; Cancer prevention; Childhood lead-poisoning prevention; Public health preparedness and response?
This is where you can find out information about immunizations.
What is the CDC website?
This is the nurses role when it comes to preventing waterborne illnesses.
What is education and advocacy to decrease the risk of waterborne illness in vulnerable populations and to improve the local drinking water supply?
Conducting a hypertension screening clinic for the community is an activity under which level of prevention.
What is secondary?
This is a goal for a nurse who is trying to obtain cultural competence.
What is reducing health disparities and achieving health equity for all Americans?
This is the definition of a health disparity.
What are gaps between rich and poor, including poverty and health insurance, plus geographic, racial, and ethnic disparities?
This is where you can find out information online, such as age, births, deaths, marriages, and divorces.
What is the US Census Bureau?
This nursing action enforces laws and regulations that protect the health and ensure safety of a population.
What is regulating and supporting safe care and
treatment for dependent populations?