An outbreak of an infectious disease worldwide or at last across a region of the world.
What is a Pandemic?
100
Actions providing early identification and treatment of disease.
What is secondary prevention?
100
At present time the largest minority group in the United States.
What is Hispanic?
100
The gender most likely to die from attempted suicide.
What is men?
100
A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
What is a community?
200
The ability of a host to withstand infection.
What is resistance?
200
Actions aiming to maximize recovery and potential.
What is tertiary prevention?
200
Beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation.
What is culture?
200
Failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, physical care, emotional care, health care, education (etc) for another person.
What is neglect?
200
When a nurse provides care for ill patients in the community setting.
What is community based nursing?
300
A problem presenting in an area in clear excess of the expected level.
What is an epidemic?
300
Conducting an H1N1 immunization clinic.
What is primary prevention?
300
The first step for the nurse in practicing culturally competent care.
What is developing cultural self-awareness?
300
The fastest growing group of homeless people.
What is families with young children?
300
Assessment, Policy Development and Assurance.
What are the core functions of public health?
400
The proportion of people who are exposed to an agent and develop a disease.
What is the attack rate?
400
Conducting a prostate cancer screening clinic.
What is secondary prevention?
400
A person who has good knowledge of medical terminology and can assist clients and nurses to understand one another when language is a barrier.
What is an interpreter?
400
Where most medical care for the homeless population is provided.
What is the Emergency Room?
400
The state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
What is health?
500
The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data for the purpose of disease prevention.
What is surveillance?
500
Referral of a cancer patient to a support group.
What is tertiary prevention?
500
The characteristic of culture which states that culture is just usually understood; people don't talk about how they express beliefs they just do it.
What is tacit?
500
Children who are hungry, homeless, hopeless, hugless and healthcareless are said to belong to this club.
What is the "5-H" club.
500
An initiative which uses evidence-based practice to guide interventions, increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease and disability.