Total number of individuals in a population who have a disease or health condition at a specific period of time
Prevalence
Calculated by: Total number of cases/ Total population
This type of homelessness includes those staying in a temporary form of housing (living with friends/family, or in shelter)
Secondary Homelessness
Which individual used the term "public health nursing" first?
Lilian Ward
Examples include teaching good nutrition, providing information on immunizations, providing information on health hazards and use of PPE
Primary Prevention
A person, already residing in the United States; a refugee who fled their home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution
Asylee
Name 2 of the 3 levels in the Public Health Intervention Wheel
1. Individual level
2. Community level
3. Systems level
This type of homelessness includes everyone who is living without adequate shelter
Primary Homelessness
Who is recognized as the founder of modern nursing?
Florence Nightingale
This is the restoration of health through rehabilitation strategies, including connecting clients with community resources after an injury
Tertiary Prevention
A health plan developed to eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
Healthy People 2030
This term describes avoidablegaps in health outcomes
Health inequity
Name 3 vulnerable populations
1. Incarcerated
2. Immigrants
3. Migrants
4. Asylees
5. Homeless
6. LGBTQ+
When was the Henry Street Settlement started?
1893
This public health prevention strategyfocuses on improving the safety of the environment (laws against drunk driving, clean air acts, etc.)
Environmental Prevention
This approach aims to prevent problems from happening in the first place- looking at larger community-based interventions (removing fried food, adding affordable healthy options in neighborhood)
Upstream Thinking
Name 2 Social Determinants of Health
1. Income (Poverty)
2. Education (access, quality)
3. Access to care
4. Neighborhood & Environment
5. Social/Community context
This vulnerable population has increased incidence of TB, poor nutrition, and often live in poor substandard housing
Migrant workers
This type of Community Health Nursing started at the beginning of 20th century:
District Nursing
This public health prevention strategyis focused on changing individual behaviors (promoting exercise, smoking cessation, etc.)
Behavioral Prevention
This vulnerable population is at increased risk for communicable diseases, suicide, mental health issues, and substance use disorders
Homeless
This is a composite measure of the interrelated concepts of income, education, and occupation.
(ie: people with a lower level of this have increased vulnerability to poor health)
Socioeconomic status (SES)
This vulnerable population is at higher risk of substance use disorders, mental health issues, and communicable diseases such as hepatitis and HIV
Incarcerated
This type of nursing is one of the newest nursing specialties, but one of the oldest means of health care delivery.
Faith based community nursing
This public health prevention strategy uses a one-to-one delivery method between health-care provider and patient or family
Clinical prevention
This vulnerable population is at higher risk for communicable diseases, suicide, mental health issues, substance use disorders, and being a victim of violence
LGBTQ+