Levels of Prevention
Community or Aggregate?
Community as Partner
Windshield Survey and Development
Community Assessment Wheel
100

A flu vaccine clinic at a community center

Primary

100

All adults in the U.S. diagnosed with asthma

Aggregate

100

The center of the Community Assessment Wheel

The core (the people)

100

Teens hanging out in groups after school are in this Erikson stage

Identity vs. role confusion

100

The outermost, dynamic buffer that protects the client system and changes quickly

Flexible line of defense

200

Free blood pressure screenings at a church

Secondary

200

Residents of a small town who attend town meetings

Community

200

Four elements of the core

History, demographics, ethnicity, values and beliefs

200

Toddlers at a playground are in this Piaget stage

Preoperational

200

The client system's usual, stable level of wellness

Normal line of defense

300

A cardiac rehab walking group

Tertiary

300

Key difference between a community and an aggregate

Community members interact and share a sense of belonging. Aggregate members share a characteristic only

300

How many subsystems surround the core? Name 4

8: physical environment, health and social services, economics, transportation and safety, politics and government, communication, education, recreation

300

Name one limitation of a windshield survey

Snapshot in time, subjective, can't see indoors or confirm demographics

300

Internal factors that protect the basic structure once a stressor penetrates the normal line

Lines of resistance

400

In Neuman's model, primary prevention strengthens this line

Flexible line of defense

400

A group that forms around a shared problem, like contaminated water

Community of solution

400

The model's key principle about the nurse's relationship with the community

The community is an active partner, nurse works with it, not on it

400

Kohlberg level of a school-age child who follows rules to avoid punishment

Preconventional

400

Name the three types of stressors

Intrapersonal, interpersonal, extrapersonal

500

Adding crosswalks after a pedestrian crash survey: which level, and why?

Primary, it prevents future injury before it happens

500

A community defined by shared identity or interests rather than geography

Phenomenological (relational) community

500

The authors of the Community as Partner model

Anderson and McFarlane

500

Name two methods to gather data a windshield survey can't provide

Key-informant interviews, focus groups, surveys, census data, County Health Rankings, community forums

500

The return to stability after a reaction to a stressor, matches tertiary prevention

Reconstitution

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