Chapter 1-2
This type of community consists of people who live within the same city, neighborhood, or town.
What is a geographic community?
This nurse is credited with founding the Henry Street Settlement.
Who is Lillian Wald?
Awareness of one's own cultural beliefs, values, and biases is known as this.
What is cultural self-awareness?
This scientific discipline studies the distribution and determinants of disease in populations.
What is epidemiology?
Human-made structures such as buildings, roads, hospitals, and housing make up this type of environment.
What is the built environment?
Healthy People 2030 defines these as the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age
What are social determinants of health?
This nursing pioneer demonstrated the importance of sanitation and monitoring mortality rates.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The belief that one's own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
The three components of the epidemiologic triangle are these.
What are host, agent, and environment?
This concept promotes fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people in environmental policies and protection.
What is environmental justice?
These are the three levels of prevention used in public health nursing.
What are primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention?
These boards review and approve research involving human subjects before studies begin.
What are Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)?
This international organization, created by the United Nations, focuses on global health.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
A sudden increase in disease cases beyond what is normally expected in a population is called this.
What is an epidemic?
Nurses improve health through research, education, advocacy, and this final area.
What is practice?
Collection, assembly, analysis, and dissemination of information describe this core public health function.
What is assessment?
The ethical principle that means "do no harm."
What is beneficence?
This federal insurance program primarily covers individuals age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
This type of immunity occurs when enough people are protected against a disease to reduce its spread.
What is herd immunity?
C/PHNs assess homes, lifestyles, communities, and cultures as part of this public health function
What is assessment?
This public health nursing role speaks up for individuals, families, and communities to improve health outcomes
What is the advocate role?
This process uses current best evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values to guide care.
What is evidence-based practice (EBP)?
This healthcare payment method provides a fixed fee per person for a specified package of services.
What is capitation?
Place these steps of the chain of causation in the correct order: Reservoir, Portal of Exit, Mode of Transmission, Agent, Portal of Entry, Host.
What is Reservoir → Portal of Exit → Mode of Transmission → Agent → Portal of Entry → Host?
Exposure to hazardous materials in air, water, food, and soil is an example of this type of health concern.
What is an environmental health risk (or environmental exposure)?