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This nurse distributing supplies to wounded soldiers during the Civil War.
Who is Clara Barton?
Florence Nightingale established the first school in London in this year.
What is 1860?
This is the first principle of public health nursing.
What is seeing the population as the client?
This country spends the most on healthcare than any other nation.
What is the United States?
This is the WHO definition of health
What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?
This individual pointed out that much of the ill health and disability in American cities in 1850 could be traced to unsanitary conditions.
Who is Lemuel Shattuck?
This essential component of nursing practice would contribute to the elimination of health disparities.
What is culture competence?
This is the definition of quality of care.
What is the degree to which health services increase the likelihood of desired outcomes and are consistent with current knowledge?
This is a major issue with Medicaid.
What is access or providers/healthcare?
This is the basic science used in public health
What is epidemiology?
This nurse devoted her life to impacting the health of mothers and babies in Appalachia.
Who is Mary Breckinridge?
Ultimately, people must do this in regards to their health.
What is taking personal responsibility for making their own choices and healthcare decisions?
Name a social determinant of health
What is the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes such as the social conditions in which people live, their incomes, their social status, their educations, their literacy levels, their homes and work environments, their support networks, their genders, their cultures, and the availability of health services?
Active military personnel use this for healthcare coverage.
What is Tricare?
These are Healthy People 2030 five overarching goals.
What is attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death; create social, physical, and environmental environments that promoting attaining the full potential for health; achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health of all groups; promote healthy development, health behaviors; and engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and well-being of all.
This organization is most known for its role during disaster relief.
What is the International Committee of the Red Cross?
A nurse learns that 50 children have received vaccinations at a local clinic during the past few months. Which health indicator is this a reflection of?
What is health services coverage?
This term is used to characterize population age distributions, birth rates, health data, and socioeconomic status?
What is census data?
This is one of the largest healthcare costs for American citizens.
What are prescription drugs?
What are public health interventions?
These address problems and thereby improve and promote the health of populations. The Public Health Wheel is an evidence-based, population-focused model. For example, at the individual level, the PHN may provide diabetic teaching to a person experiencing homelessness, in order to increase the person's knowledge and improve self-management through behavior change and connection to community resources. At the community level, the PHN could develop a community awareness campaign to inform the community about the structural causes of homelessness to change the norm of blaming the person and removing the stigma.
This agency should be used for finding information on the health statistics and characteristics of the local county.
What is the States Vital Statistics Bureau?
The adoption of electronic health records by providers and hospitals receive this federal benefit.
What is reimbursement and incentives?
Efforts on this are the public health nurses distinguishing role in regards to disease.
What is priority on primary prevention?
PHN prioritizes prevention of disease and promoting health before it becomes a problem, such as education efforts and vaccination programs.
This represents how conflicts are expressed and resolved in a society.
What is politics?
Name some challenges for PHN in the 21st century.
What are threats from emerging and re-emerging diseases, behavioral health issues, violence, climate change including heat-related morbidity and mortality; and environmental such as clean air, safe drinking water, adequate food supply, and secure, stable housing. Also, natural and man-made disasters and emergencies.