Ch 19-20
This term describes an infant whose birth weight is less than 2500g
Low birth weight
According to the presentation, the textbook defines an adult as a person older than this age.
18 years old
These are the environmental conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that influence health and quality of life.
Social determinants of health
This term is defined as an overarching term that describes limitations in activities, impairments, and restrictions in participation.
Disability
This term describes a person who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.
Homelessness
Birth occurring before this number of completed weeks of pregnancy is classified as preterm.
37 weeks
Obesity, tobacco use, alcohol use disorder, and substance use disorder are classified as this type of health concern because they can worsen other diseases.
Confounding health concerns
This term describes differences in healthcare treatment among demographic groups that cannot be explained by clinical needs or patient preferences.
Healthcare disparity
This universal classification model uses standardized language to examine body functions, activities, participation, environmental factors, and personal factors when evaluating health.
International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
(ICF)
Rural communities often experience shortages of medical, dental, and mental health professionals. These areas are known by this acronym.
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
Early and routine use of this healthcare service increases the likelihood of a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby.
Prenatal Care
Rather than chronological age, this is considered a better determinant of healthy aging.
Assisted living
Research showing that people with higher-paying jobs tend to experience better health than people with lower-paying jobs illustrates this concept.
Socioeconomic gradient
A patient's wheelchair no longer fits, when there is a lack of an accessible vehicle, and when adaptive recreational opportunities are limited. These findings are examples of this type of factor affecting health outcomes.
Environmental barriers (factors)
A community health nurse working with a homeless client arranges transportation to appointments, screens for chronic disease, and assesses available community resources. This level of prevention is being demonstrated.
Secondary Prevention
For children ages 1 through 4, this is identified as the leading cause of injury-related death in the presentation.
Drowning
A nurse recommends vaccinations and strength training, completes a fall-risk assessment, and arranges physical therapy following a fall. Name the three levels of prevention represented, in order.
Primary prevention
secondary prevention
tertiary prevention
A community/public health nurse connects an uninsured patient with a nonprofit clinic and teaches the patient how to navigate available services. These actions demonstrate these two nursing roles discussed in the presentation.
Facilitating external support and improving access to nursing services
Caregiver role strain
This healthcare approach can connect rural patients with specialty providers through electronically transmitted consultations between the patient and provider.
Telehealth
A community health nurse reviews school health data, identifies increasing childhood obesity, develops a nutrition program, and later evaluates changes in student outcomes. This sequence demonstrates these four central responsibilities of the community/public health nurse.
Continually assessing
obtaining data
identifying trends
creating interventions based off trends
Rather than chronological age, this is considered a better determinant of healthy aging.
Function or functional ability
Honorable, general, other than honorable, bad conduct, and dishonorable are the five levels of this military classification, which can affect the services available to a veteran.
Military discharge
A community/public health nurse collects and analyzes behavioral health data, builds local resources, prioritizes interventions, delivers evidence-based programs, and then measures outcomes. Name the five steps of this community/public health intervention process.
Access
Capacity
Plan
Implement
Evaluate
A migrant farm worker has diabetes, limited transportation, low health literacy, and difficulty accessing healthcare services. Name two social or environmental barriers that contribute to poor health outcomes in migrant populations.
low literacy
language barriers
cultural barriers
transient lifestyle
limited access to healthcare