Terms
How is health defined?
A dynamic state or condition of the human organism that is multidimensional, a resource for living, and results from interactions with and adaptations to the environment.
What is global health?
Health issues that transcend national boundaries and are best addressed through cooperative actions.
What are personal health activities?
Individual actions and decision-making affecting an individual or their close circle (e.g., eating healthy, exercising).
What is community organizing?
Helping communities identify problems/goals, mobilize resources, and develop strategies through consensus-building.
Name at least 4 major public health achievements of the 20th century.
Vaccination, motor vehicle safety, control of infectious diseases, safer food, fluoridated water, recognition of tobacco use as a hazard, family planning.
What is a community?
A group of people with common characteristics (location, race, age, occupation, interests, etc.) who share values, norms, needs, and emotional connections
What is the focus of public health nursing?
Assuring conditions in which people can be healthy, done through government structures (e.g., CDC, FDA, NIH, health departments).
What are community/public health activities?
Activities to protect or improve population health (e.g., maintaining birth/death records, protecting food/water supply).
What is herd immunity?
Resistance of a population to the spread of an infectious agent based on immunity of a high proportion of individuals.
What is Healthy people?
A national initiative started in 1979 that sets decade-long objectives for improving health of Americans.
What is public health?
Collective actions society takes to ensure conditions that allow people to be healthy.
What is the focus of community health nursing?
Preventing illness and protecting health — the primary client is the community.
What are the 5 major determinants of health?
Physical factors
Social factors
Cultural factors
Community organizing
Individual behavior
What are the 4 main goals of Healthy People 2030?
Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease/injury/death
Achieve health equity & eliminate disparities
Create social & physical environments promoting good health
Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages
What is community health?
The health status of a defined group and the actions/conditions to promote, protect, and preserve their health.
What is the focus of community-based nursing?
Managing acute and chronic conditions for individuals/families; mostly secondary and tertiary prevention.
Name 4 physical factors that affect community health.
Geography, environment, community size, industrial development.
What is population health?
Health outcomes of a group of individuals, including how those outcomes are distributed within the group.
Name 5 social/cultural factors that affect community health.
Beliefs/traditions/prejudices, economy, politics, religion, social norms, socioeconomic status.