Definitions
What we, as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy
What is the definition of public health, according to the IOM
Stopping or slowing the progression of disease by early detection and treatment
What is secondary prevention?
Economic stability, education, health and health care, neighborhood and built environment, and social & community context
What are the Healthy People 2020 5 key domains for determinants of health?
One of the core functions of public health: when the PHN is collecting data about obesity rates in schoolchildren in the county
What is assessment
Developing a health education program for teenagers that teaches them about the effects of STI's.
Wide variations in health services and health status between certain population groups are called this.
What are health disparities?
The basis of the pyramid of public health core functions, it provides a foundation for clinical preventative services and 3 levels of health care
What are population based health care services?
What is tertiary prevention?
This organization defined Public Health Nursing as "the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences".
Who was the public health nursing section of the American Public Health Association?
A core function of public health; using a scientific knowledge basis, the PHN partners with local agencies and consumers to develop local public health initiatives and guidelines
What is policy development?
A nurse offers screening for hearing defects at a local community center
What is secondary prevention?
__________ describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions
What is surveillance?
A core function of public health; the St Vincent's Mobile Outreach ministry assures the availability of essential personal health services for those who would not otherwise receive health care
What is assurance
Stopping deterioration in a patient, preventing relapse, disability, and dependency by anticipatory nursing and medical care?
What is tertiary prevention?
Social Marketing, Collaboration, Health teaching, Case management, and screening are some of the 17 examples of these.
What are the interventions on the public health nursing intervention wheel?