Community Health Exam 1 NUR 426: Practice
Questions & Key Concepts|Latest Updated
2026 Rationales Graded A+
Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area, such as a town or a
neighborhood, or a group of individuals who share some other common denominator, such as
ethnicity or religious orientation.
Community
Refers to a larger group whose members may or may not interact with one another but who
share at least one characteristic such as age, gender, ethnicity, residence, or a shared health
issue such as HIV/AIDS or breast cancer.
Population
In public health, this term represents individual units brought together into a whole or a sum of
those individuals.
Aggregate
What is diversity?
Diversity reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation
to culture, ethnicity, and race.
What are the eight principles of public health nursing? (BOX 1-5)
1. The client or unit of care is the population.
2. The primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people or
population as a whole.
3. The processes used by PHNs include working with the client as an equal partner.
4. PRIMARY prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities.
5. Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create healthy environmental, social, and
economic conditions in which populations may thrive.
6. A PHN is obligated to actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit from a specific
activity or service.
7. Use of available resources must be optimal to assure the best overall improvement in the
health of the population.
,8. Collaboration with a variety of other professions, populations, organizations, and other
stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the health of the people.
What is the primary role for WHO ( World Health Organization)?
- Primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations' system.
- The WHO has expanded to include emergency response and disaster preparedness initiatives.
Public health infrastructure includes three key components that enable a public health
organization at the federal, tribal, state, or local level to deliver public health services, what are
they?
1. A capable and qualified workforce
2. Up-to-date data and information systems
3. Public health agencies capable of assessing and responding to public health needs
*These components are necessary to fulfill the previously discussed 10 Essential Public Health
Services*
What is the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility?
Cultural competence is the standard to help guide the delivery of health care to individuals and
to populations, whereas cultural humility is the underlying quality needed to truly implement
interventions to improve health in partnership with communities and populations.
The underlying quality needed to truly implement interventions to improve health in
partnership with communities and populations is known as?
Cultural Humility
The standard to help guide the delivery of health care to individuals and to populations is
called?
Cultural competence
What are the ten essential public health services?
1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
, 8. Assure a competent public health and personal health-care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
What are vulnerable populations?
-Prisoners (incarcerated)
-Pregnant women
-Children
-Those who are mentally incapacitated
-Refugees, Migrants, Immigrants, asylees
-The poor, the homeless
-Older adults
-Sexual minorities (LQBTQ)
-Persons with a substance use disorder
What are the public health interventions? (Box 2-3)
- Advocacy
- Case Finding
- Case management
- Coalition building
- Collaboration
- Community organizing
- Consultation
- Counseling
- Disease and other health event investigation
- Health teaching
- Outreach
- Policy development
- Policy enforcement
- Referral and follow-up
- Screening
- Social marketing
- Surveillance
What is the prevalence pot?
The prevalence pot helps identify those health conditions that may have an increasing number
of cases over time if the development of new cases is not prevented.
Questions & Key Concepts|Latest Updated
2026 Rationales Graded A+
Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area, such as a town or a
neighborhood, or a group of individuals who share some other common denominator, such as
ethnicity or religious orientation.
Community
Refers to a larger group whose members may or may not interact with one another but who
share at least one characteristic such as age, gender, ethnicity, residence, or a shared health
issue such as HIV/AIDS or breast cancer.
Population
In public health, this term represents individual units brought together into a whole or a sum of
those individuals.
Aggregate
What is diversity?
Diversity reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation
to culture, ethnicity, and race.
What are the eight principles of public health nursing? (BOX 1-5)
1. The client or unit of care is the population.
2. The primary obligation is to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people or
population as a whole.
3. The processes used by PHNs include working with the client as an equal partner.
4. PRIMARY prevention is the priority in selecting appropriate activities.
5. Public health nursing focuses on strategies that create healthy environmental, social, and
economic conditions in which populations may thrive.
6. A PHN is obligated to actively identify and reach out to all who might benefit from a specific
activity or service.
7. Use of available resources must be optimal to assure the best overall improvement in the
health of the population.
,8. Collaboration with a variety of other professions, populations, organizations, and other
stakeholder groups is the most effective way to promote and protect the health of the people.
What is the primary role for WHO ( World Health Organization)?
- Primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations' system.
- The WHO has expanded to include emergency response and disaster preparedness initiatives.
Public health infrastructure includes three key components that enable a public health
organization at the federal, tribal, state, or local level to deliver public health services, what are
they?
1. A capable and qualified workforce
2. Up-to-date data and information systems
3. Public health agencies capable of assessing and responding to public health needs
*These components are necessary to fulfill the previously discussed 10 Essential Public Health
Services*
What is the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility?
Cultural competence is the standard to help guide the delivery of health care to individuals and
to populations, whereas cultural humility is the underlying quality needed to truly implement
interventions to improve health in partnership with communities and populations.
The underlying quality needed to truly implement interventions to improve health in
partnership with communities and populations is known as?
Cultural Humility
The standard to help guide the delivery of health care to individuals and to populations is
called?
Cultural competence
What are the ten essential public health services?
1. Monitor health status to identify community health problems.
2. Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
3. Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
4. Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems.
5. Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
6. Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when
otherwise unavailable.
, 8. Assure a competent public health and personal health-care workforce.
9. Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health
services.
10. Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems.
What are vulnerable populations?
-Prisoners (incarcerated)
-Pregnant women
-Children
-Those who are mentally incapacitated
-Refugees, Migrants, Immigrants, asylees
-The poor, the homeless
-Older adults
-Sexual minorities (LQBTQ)
-Persons with a substance use disorder
What are the public health interventions? (Box 2-3)
- Advocacy
- Case Finding
- Case management
- Coalition building
- Collaboration
- Community organizing
- Consultation
- Counseling
- Disease and other health event investigation
- Health teaching
- Outreach
- Policy development
- Policy enforcement
- Referral and follow-up
- Screening
- Social marketing
- Surveillance
What is the prevalence pot?
The prevalence pot helps identify those health conditions that may have an increasing number
of cases over time if the development of new cases is not prevented.
