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a personal health care system that provides for first contact and continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care
What is Primary care
Important skills for nurses in environmental health practice.
What are case advocacy and class advocacy
Three major factors have been associated with the growth of the health care delivery system
What are price inflation, changes in population demographics, and technology and service intensity
A specialty area that has a strong theoretical base and is more than just common sense.
What is Family nursing
The successful interaction of the infectious agent, host, and environment
What is necessary for disease transmission.
Refers to organized community efforts designed to prevent disease and promote health.
What is Public health
Exist to protect citizens from environmental hazards.
What are Federal, state, and local laws and
Becoming a major health factor affecting health care spending
What is chronic disease
The study of structures of families and households as well as events that alter the family such as marriage, divorce, births, cohabitation, and dual careers.
What is Family demographics
Preventing infection is the most cost-effective public health strategy.
What is Primary prevention
The agency most directly involved with the health and welfare of Americans
What is
Practice includes principles of health promotion, disease prevention, and health protection.
What is Environmental Health
Concerned with the problems of producing services and programs and distributing them to clients.
What is health economics
Refers to the characteristics, gender, age, and number of the individual members who make up the family unit.
What is family structure
Requires the use of a multisystem approach focusing on improving host resistance, improving safety of the environment, improving public health systems, and facilitating social and political changes to ensure health for all people.
What is effective control of communicable diseases
Demographic, social, economic, political, and technological trends
What are Important trends that affect the health care system
Acknowledge the role of the environment in health and disease.
What are Models describing the determinants of health
Reflects the market value of goods and services produced by the U.S
What is the GNP
Difficult to define, but it includes the biological, psychological, sociological, cultural, and spiritual factors of the family system.
What is Family health
Chain links where effective intervention measures at the individual and community levels must be aimed to stop spread of disease
What are the agent, host, and environment
A personal care system and a public health system, with overlap between the two systems.
What comprises Health care in the United States
Questions and observations about intended and unintended environmental exposures.
What are components of nursing assessment
A document that has established U.S. health objectives.
What is Healthy People 2020
Mother, father, and young children.
What is a nuclear family
Required aspects of disease prevention and control programs
What is cooperation with other members of the interdisciplinary health care team