Epidemiology and Surveillance
Roles of PHNs and Community Work
Health Promotions
Community Assessment
Health Planning
100
Identify the term associated with the following fact: "In any given year, 3.2 million people in the world have schizophrenia."
What is prevalence?
100
When a nurse is part of a team which deals with communicable diseases, name two of the roles which the nurse can perform.
-Monitoring and surveillance -Participating in outbreak investigations -Case-finding -Infection control and supervision -Prevention measures
100
This item, when carried out in health promotion activities, should be: -Accurate -Easy to administer -Have widely-accessible treatment options
What is screening for disease?
100
This sector includes primary and secondary learning institutions. Specific stakeholders may include administrators, guidance counselors, and nurses.
What is the education sector?
100
In the hospital setting, the process of being a "frequent flier"; in the prison, the likelihood of returning.
What is recidivism?
200
This calculation often takes participants in cohort studies and follows them prospectively to determine environmental and habitual factors which increase the rate of a chronic disease.
What is relative risk?
200
There are three core roles of health department agencies. Name all three of them.
-Assessment -Assurance -Policy Development
200
These international objectives aim to target improving the health of poorer populations. These include environmental sustainability, reducing child mortality, eradicating hunger, and promoting gender equality.
What are millennial development goals (MDGs)?
200
What is the first step in the CHANGE model?
To identify key stakeholders and assemble a team.
200
Example: A nurse is caring for a patient with tuberculosis. The nurse stays with the patient to ensure medication compliance.
What is directly-observed therapy?
300
The epidemiological model is often utilized to determine factors which lead to chronic diseases.
What is the web of causation?
300
Partnerships formed in developing community relations include working with local organizations and state organizations. Other than the department of health, what other services may be useful in caring for a community?
-Agency of Human Services (DCF, Adult Protective Services, Corrections, Mental Health) -Agency of Transportation -Agency of Education -Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation (Fish and Wildlife) -Department of Public Safety (State Police, Emergency Management)
300
Endemic disease is often controlled by administering these medications.
What are immunizations?
300
Utilizing the CHANGE model, the team should not only look at the towns deficits, but also ____________.
available resources (assets)
300
This type of primary care facility helps patients in under-served communities regardless of patient ability to pay.
What is a federally-qualified health center?
400
This is harder to prove than "association".
What is causality?
400
The creation of laws or guidelines to improve a condition in a community which can have detrimental health effects.
What is policy development?
400
ICD-10 Codes are often used to identify specific diagnoses for billing. What is the purpose of MDCs?
MDCs, or Major Diagnostic Categories, are used to better group people into classifications for epidemiological purposes and other studies relating to public health.
400
True or false: The CHANGE tool is used to prioritize needs in a community to improve overall health and the environment.
True
400
This services is offered to mothers and their newborns, especially in low-income population. Focus is specifically on nutrition and its relation to health.
What is Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
500
While genetics is the study of specific traits, this is the study of the sum of those genes.
What is the genome?
500
These people bring community relations to the table and their expertise in enacting positive change via policy development, supplies, and financial contributions.
What are stakeholders?
500
Global goals of promoting health are very similar to the MDGs. Name two of four primary global health promotion goals.
-Safe food and water -Equitable education -Maternal/child family planning -Prevention and control of endemic disease
500
Within each sector, the community team evaluates demographics, leadership, chronic disease management, physical activity, nutrition, and ____________.
Tobacco cessation.
500
Assessment, policy development, and assurance are part of what?
The public health nursing process.
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