Vulnerability
Lack of access to safe housing or healthcare services are examples of these conditions that contribute to vulnerability.
What are social determinants of health?
The nurse educates a group of new parents about safe sleep practices to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This is an example of an intervention at this level.
What is the community level of practice?
A process where the health professional defines and directs how to improve the desired health outcome.
In triage, patients who are able to walk and have minor injuries are assigned this color.
What is green?
At this level of the Minnesota Intervention Wheel, interventions focus on modifying policies, creating regulations, or improving organizational practices
What is the systems level?
The concept that describes the difference in health outcomes between different groups often influences by factors like socioeconomic status, race, geographic location, etc.
What are health disparities?
Conducting a campaign to promote flu vaccination in a vulnerable neighborhood is an example of this intervention which seeks to influence behaviors.
What is social marketing?
Increased knowledge, changes in behavior, increased sense of self, or improved health
What are examples of outcomes of empowerment strategies?
The process of sorting patients during a disaster based on urgency of care needs and available resources is called this.
What is triage?
The word that describes the number of new cases of a particular disease occurring in a specific population during a defined time period.
What is incidence?
What are health inequities?
A nurse works with an organization made up of community members coming together to secure funding for a mobile health clinic in their community for unhoused individuals. This is an example of this Minnesota Intervention Wheel intervention.
What is community organizing?
This term describes the belief in their ability to successfully manage their health, which can be strengthened through support, education, and small goals.
What is self-efficacy?
In the START method of triage, this color is assigned to patients who have life-threatening conditions but can be helped with immediate care
What is red?
The term referring to groups of individuals who are at higher risk for poor health outcomes due to factors such as socioeconomic status, discrimination, or limited access to healthcare.
What are vulnerable populations?
This concept explains how multiple risk factors can be combined to increase a person's likelihood of poor health outcomes.
What is cumulative risk?
Working with a group of community leaders to address food insecurity by partnering with outside organizations and resources represents this intervention strategy from the Minnesota Intervention Wheel.
What is coalition building?
When dominant individuals or groups fail to recognize the influence they have and overlook the impact of their decisions on others.
What is an example of power over?
Building flood-resistant infrastructure in a flood prone area.
What is an example of mitigation?
An example of these two public health interventions from the Minnesota Intervention Wheel: A nurse documents patterns of asthma attacks in a neighborhood near a freeway and presents findings to local policymakers.
What is surveillance and advocacy?
Physiological consequences of chronic exposure to the fluctuating or heightened neuroendocrine response that results from chronic stress.
What is allostatic load?
A nurse checks a patient's blood pressure to test for hypertension and refers them to a provider for follow up care. This is an example of these two Minnesota Intervention Wheel interventions.
What is an example of screening with referral and follow up?
This is an example of the concept: The nurse supports and advocates for the patient's needs instead of convincing them to comply with the provider's wishes.
What is an example of a nurse understanding patient autonomy and self determination?
An example of this phase of disaster management: a nurse assists in triaging patients during a mass casualty event.
What is the response phase?
This concept describes whether a patient believes that their health outcomes are determined by their own actions versus external forces.
What is locus of control?