A group of people and institutions that share geographic, civic, and/or social parameters.
What is a community?
100
National health goals for promoting health and preventing disease based on national health objectives. These are released every 10 years to reflect changes in the trends and data of the previous decade.
What is Healthy People?
100
Formal name for a manual blood pressure cuff.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
100
The number of new cases in the population at a specific time divided by the population total multiplied by 1,000=______ per 1,000
What is the incidence rate?
100
Disease that can be caught from someone else.
What is a communicable disease?
200
This is determined by the degree to which the community's collective health needs are identified and met.
What is the community's health?
200
Prevention of the initial occurrence of disease or injury. Provide the level of prevention and an appropriate example.
What is primary prevention?
200
Medical device for measuring an approximate serum glucose concentration.
What is a glucometer or glucose meter?
200
Host, environment and agent...
What are the three main components of the epidemiological triangle?
200
Bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi.
What are agents of communicable disease?
300
Health indicators (mortality rates, disease prevalence, levels of physical activity, obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse) are used to describe this...
What is the health status of a community?
300
Faith in people, trust established through dialog, hope in positive transformational benefiting the community as a whole, and discussions grounded in critical thinking without fear of repercussions by those in power.
What are the characteristics of an empowered community? (Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
300
_______________ is the process of independently analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information as a guide to behavior and beliefs.
What is critical thinking?
300
The setting or surrounding that sustains the host
What is the environment?
300
Fomites, food/water, airborne
What are indirect vehicles of contact?
400
One of the many roles of the community health nurse. It is the role of the informer, supporter, and mediator for the client.
What is advocacy?
400
Disease surveillance (communicable diseases) is an example of early detection and treatment with the goal of limiting severity and adverse effects.
What is secondary prevention?
400
Literature provided to help enhance a patient's understanding of a health related topic.
What is patient education materials?
400
The animate or inanimate object that causes the disease?
What is the agent?
400
Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Malaria, and Zika
What are vector-borne diseases (passed via a carrier)?
500
Respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and distributive justice.
What are ethical considerations?
500
Health education and counseling, immunizations, and other actions that aim to prevent a potential disease or disability. (Not primary, secondary or tertiary).
What are examples of preventative services?
500
Street card, internet access, local library, church or support groups, and local health care providers are all examples of these.
What are public health resources?
500
Identification of the population-specific learning needs.
What is the first step of developing a community health education plan?
500
Majority of the population is immune, therefore the rest of the population is protected.