Outside the Box
Assessment, Policy Making and Assurance
What are the Core Functions of Public Health?
It's a numbers game.
What is quantitative research?
A range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors which contribute to individual and population health.
What are social determinants of health?
Completing a mammogram every year after the age of 50 for all females.
What is the second level of prevention?
Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person or group compared to another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
What is bias?
Nurses practicing in the community setting
What is community based nursing?
Truth is found by understanding how people interact with and in their environment
What is qualitative research?
The degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information.
What is health literacy?
The Public Health Department is sponsoring a Saturday morning workshop on foot care for diabetics. Family and friends welcome!
What is tertiary prevention?
A social classification that relies on physical markers.
What is race?
The synthesis of nursing theory and public health theory combining to promote, preserve and maintain the health of populations.
What is public health nursing?
Systematic process of inquiry that validates and refines existing knowledge to produce unbiased trustworthy answers to questions related to the practice of nursing.
What is nursing research?
Provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
What is Healthy People?
A woman decides to have a bilateral mastectomy after discovering she has a genetic mutation of the "breast cancer gene"?
What is the primary level of prevention?
Implies having the capacity to function effectively as an individual or organization within the context of the cultural beliefs, behaviors, and needs presented by consumers and their community.
What is cultural competency?
The nurse who saw health enhanced through improving the environment
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The factor that is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
Opened the Henry Street Settlement to provide care to the inner city community where poverty limited all access to health.
Who is Lillian Wald?
When an activity raises threats of harm to human or environmental health, measures should be taken to avoid injury especially when not all the scientific information is available regarding cause and effect relationships.
What is the Precautionary Principle?
The act of inflicting one's own cultural beliefs on another.
What is cultural imposition?
High cost, barriers to access and low quality
What are the issues with the current US health system?
Looks for relationships; does NOT determine cause and effect.
What is correlational research design?
A resource which allows EBR citizens to become knowledgeable about health care issues in this community.
What is Healthy br?
The annual "Get Your Rear in Gear" 5K walk run will include booths with healthy high fiber foods, free FOBT, and information about local colon cancer support group meetings.
What represents all three levels of prevention?
A belief that one's own culture determines the standards by which others are judged.
What is ethnocentrism?