Health Promotion
The science of protecting and improving the health of communities through organized community effort.
What is public health?
This is a specific population that the nurse chooses when completing a community assessment.
What is an aggregate?
Sudden increase in number of cases of a disease within a community, population or region.
What is an epidemic?
what are environmental factors affecting community health?
air pollution, water and sanitation, increasing heat waves and severe weather event
This kind of Vaccine is contraindicated in Pregnancy and for those with a compromised immune system.
Live Vaccine- MMR, Varicella
Access to healthcare, socioeconomic status, environmental issues, and cultural practices that influence today’s community health nursing practice.
What are Social determinants of health?
The data analysis has been completed, this is what the nurse does next.
What is develop the community diagnosis?
An epidemic that spread over multiple countries or continents and affects a large number of people.
What is pandemic?
What is an example of the built environment?
roads, bridges, buildings or homes
Less than 6 months old, egg allergy, previous reaction, moderate to severe illness
What are contraindications to the Flu vaccine?
Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
What are Healthy People 2030 goals?
This is the first step in community health planning.
Community health assessment
Refers to being confined to or widespread only within a place or population within a geographic region and normally present at low levels.
What is endemic?
What is the definition of community health?
Community health is a field of public health that focuses on studying, protecting, or improving health within a community.
An individual or living thing that can become sick from an infectious agent.
What is a susceptible host?
Explain what health disparities mean.
Health and Healthcare disparities refer to differences in health and healthcare between populations
This type of data is obtained through examination of data already collected for another purpose, such as census data.
What is secondary data?
A person or animal that harbors the infectious agent and can transmit it to others. The person themself does not demonstrate signs of disease.
What is a carrier?
Institutional, public, social, organizational, and health
What are types of policies?
The links in the chain of infection.
Infectious agents, Reservoirs, Portals of exit, Modes of transmission, Port of entry, Host susceptibility
Examples are seat belt laws and tobacco purchasing that apply to all members of society and have set consequences for not complying
What is public policy?
What is the purpose of the Community Health Assessment?
Any of the following will work:
- What is define community health priorities
- Develop action plans
- Decide how to address priorities?
The epidemiological triangle consists of these components.
What are the Host, Environment and Agent
This model is used to apply the nursing process to a larger aggregate within a systems framework.
What is the Health Planning Model.
(Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Evaluation)
Environmental exposure history mnemonic reference tool
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