PPN 302 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Extent to which individual/community is able to realize
aspirations and satisfy needs
- Change or cope with the environment
- Resource for everyday living
- Positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities
- balance between physical, social, and spiritual dimensions
What is community? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- A collective ppl who live in defined geopolitical
boundary, work, play, and pray in a space
- A collective ppl who share common values and concerns
- The way ppl think about and organize their social relationships
- NOT a coherent or fixed entity
Before doing a community assessment, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Purpose of assessment
2. Target population
3. Social and/or geopolitical boundaries of the community
4. Community composition
5. Characteristics of community
6. Approaches or techniques that will be used
7. Degree of political support
8. Time frame for assessment
9. Available resources to carry out the assessment
10. The cost and benefits of the assessment
What is a community assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- A process of gathering, analyzing, and
reporting information about the needs and the capacities or strengths that are also currently available in
your community meet those needs.
- Part of a complex process of identifying & responding to problems, needs, issues affecting population.
,What are 3 basic steps of Community Health Assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Gather (data
gathering and generation)
2. Analyze (data interpretation and needs identification)
3. Prioritize (setting priorities and resource evaluation)
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anyone & everyone who has an interest in/stake in the
community and community process
Gatekeepers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The person, people, or institutions that hold the power to let you
in or keep you out.
Environmental scan is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Broad overview of a community to see "what's what"
- "Look, listen, and watch" at different times, days
For environmental scan, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The appropriateness of an environmental
scan for the purpose of assessment.
- How your own assumptions and expectations might affect the assessment process
- Ethical issues, factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice in the assessment of process and analysis
For Problem investigation, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Who has identified problems and how is
framed
- Power dynamics in the community overall and in the identification of the problem
- Solutions that are being suggested and by whom
- How your own assumptions and expectation may affect the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
Resource evaluation is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Evaluating existing resources and services
- Examining if resources meet identified needs; if they are appropriate to the demographics
- Often done when service use has changed
, For resource evaluation, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Whether the issue is about
services/resources, shifting demographics, or something else
-Implications of the social, political, and economic realities on the potential for change
- Who is advocating for change and issues of power
- Influence your own assumptions and expectations on the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
For needs assessment, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Whose needs are being expressed
- Whether they are needs or wants
- Where to being - small or big issues?
- The power dynamics
- How your assumptions and expectations might affect the process
- The ethical issue and factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice
4 types of needs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. normative needs: determined by experts through
professional analysis
2. felt need: what ppl say they need
3. Expressed need: felt need turned into action
4. Comparative need: comparing services or resources of one area to another similar area
What are some of the factors to consider when obtaining data? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- history of the
community
- Perception of community by both CHN and community
- Population demographics
- Physical, socioeconomic environment
- Education and healthy child development
- Culture and religion
- health and social services
- governance and politics
What is health? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Extent to which individual/community is able to realize
aspirations and satisfy needs
- Change or cope with the environment
- Resource for everyday living
- Positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capabilities
- balance between physical, social, and spiritual dimensions
What is community? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- A collective ppl who live in defined geopolitical
boundary, work, play, and pray in a space
- A collective ppl who share common values and concerns
- The way ppl think about and organize their social relationships
- NOT a coherent or fixed entity
Before doing a community assessment, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Purpose of assessment
2. Target population
3. Social and/or geopolitical boundaries of the community
4. Community composition
5. Characteristics of community
6. Approaches or techniques that will be used
7. Degree of political support
8. Time frame for assessment
9. Available resources to carry out the assessment
10. The cost and benefits of the assessment
What is a community assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- A process of gathering, analyzing, and
reporting information about the needs and the capacities or strengths that are also currently available in
your community meet those needs.
- Part of a complex process of identifying & responding to problems, needs, issues affecting population.
,What are 3 basic steps of Community Health Assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Gather (data
gathering and generation)
2. Analyze (data interpretation and needs identification)
3. Prioritize (setting priorities and resource evaluation)
Stakeholders - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anyone & everyone who has an interest in/stake in the
community and community process
Gatekeepers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The person, people, or institutions that hold the power to let you
in or keep you out.
Environmental scan is - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Broad overview of a community to see "what's what"
- "Look, listen, and watch" at different times, days
For environmental scan, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The appropriateness of an environmental
scan for the purpose of assessment.
- How your own assumptions and expectations might affect the assessment process
- Ethical issues, factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice in the assessment of process and analysis
For Problem investigation, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Who has identified problems and how is
framed
- Power dynamics in the community overall and in the identification of the problem
- Solutions that are being suggested and by whom
- How your own assumptions and expectation may affect the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
Resource evaluation is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Evaluating existing resources and services
- Examining if resources meet identified needs; if they are appropriate to the demographics
- Often done when service use has changed
, For resource evaluation, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Whether the issue is about
services/resources, shifting demographics, or something else
-Implications of the social, political, and economic realities on the potential for change
- Who is advocating for change and issues of power
- Influence your own assumptions and expectations on the process
- Ethical issues, SDOH, equity, social justice
For needs assessment, consider: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Whose needs are being expressed
- Whether they are needs or wants
- Where to being - small or big issues?
- The power dynamics
- How your assumptions and expectations might affect the process
- The ethical issue and factors related to SDOH, equity, social justice
4 types of needs - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. normative needs: determined by experts through
professional analysis
2. felt need: what ppl say they need
3. Expressed need: felt need turned into action
4. Comparative need: comparing services or resources of one area to another similar area
What are some of the factors to consider when obtaining data? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- history of the
community
- Perception of community by both CHN and community
- Population demographics
- Physical, socioeconomic environment
- Education and healthy child development
- Culture and religion
- health and social services
- governance and politics
