Introduction
True or False: Population, community, and public health are all the same.
False
A family nursing model that looks at family processes and the family’s relationships or its transactions with other institutions
What is the transactional model?
Initiatives that aim to prevent an adverse health event from occurring, such as immunizations and health promotion education
What is primary prevention?
True or false: Nurses in population health only work in public health settings.
What is false?
An approach to supporting the health of people through research, data analysis, and health programming
What is population health?
A specialty area of nursing and health practice focused on the health and risks of a specific locality or community of people
What is community health?
An interdisciplinary conceptual framework focusing on wholeness, patterns, relationship, hierarchical order, integration, and organization of phenomena
What is general systems theory?
Initiatives that aim to lessen the negative impact of a health condition and prevent complications
What is tertiary prevention?
Involves working with healthcare providers, patients, and their families to coordinate and manage patient care across multiple settings and providers
What is a care coordinator?
Conditions and social factors that affect outcomes and risks related to health, functioning, and quality of life
What are social determinants of health?
Leading cause of preventable death in the United States
What is tobacco use?
A theory of family development that asserts that families must move through certain stages, in order, and in each stage attain certain developmental tasks
What is Duvall's Family Development Theory?
Actions and decisions that seek to protect patients from unnecessary or harmful medical interventions
What is quaternary prevention?
Uses data to manage patient data, monitor patient outcomes, and identify opportunities to improve care
What is an informatics implementor?
Aspects of personal behaviors, lifestyle choices, exposures, or attributes that generally increase the likelihood or severity of acquiring a health condition
What are risk factors?
A specialty area of nursing and health practice focused on supporting the well-being of society through organized efforts to ensure health is attainable for all
What is public health?
A model that facilitates the study and organization of how client and community health behaviors and outcomes are affected by personal, situational, community, societal, political, and other contexts
What is the socio-ecological model?
Primary activity in secondary prevention
What is screening?
Collaborates with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other healthcare providers to provide comprehensive, patient-centered care to individuals and populations
What is a primary care partner?
Describes interventions that focus on the behavior of individuals to modify the risk of disease, prevent illness, or manage chronic conditions
What is downstream?
Three core functions of public health
What are assessment, policy development, and assurance?
A model used to assess a family’s strengths, resources, problems, and illness suffering by studying the family’s structure, development, and function
What is the Calgary Family Assessment Model?
Antiviral treatments for influenza
What is an example of tertiary prevention?
Works with community organizations and other healthcare providers to address social determinants of health that impact patient outcomes
What is a community-based facilitator?
Estimates the number of healthy years lost across the population due to premature death and disability from a select condition
What are disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)?