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1. Public Healthsand Nursing Practice
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2. Optimizing Population Health +s +s
3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice +s +s +s
4. Introduction to Community Assessment +s +s +s
5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health +s
II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
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8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases +s
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12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
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13. Injury and Violence
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III. Public Health Planning
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14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
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22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter1:PublicHealthandNursingPractice
MultipleChoice
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1. Public healthnurses (PHNs) know theymust approach a public healthissu
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ewithan understanding of therelated underlying riskfactorstodevelop effe
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ctive nursing interventions. They evaluate theseriskfactorsfromtwoperspe
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ctives:
1. Disease;individual
2. Intervention;government
3. Epidemic;population
4. Individual;population
2. Anursingstudentisstudyingpublichealth.Shelearnsthat,accordingto
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C.E.A.Winslow’sdefinition,someofthegoalsofpublichealthincludediseas ep
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revention,promotinghealth,controlofcommunicableinfections,and
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2. Promotionofprimarycare
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gnosis and preventivetreatment of disease
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4. Governmentalsafetyregulations
3. If theinternational medical community was working to contain several
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worldwide pandemics, theywouldlooktothe World Health Organization(
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2. Workingtoimprovehealthandwell- +s +s +s +s
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4. Alloftheabove. +s +s
4. TheInstituteofMedicine(IOM),nowknownastheHealthandMedicineDi vi
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sion(HMD)oftheNationalAcademiesofSciences,Engineering,andMedici ne,
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stated intheirreport, The Futureofthe Public’s Health, that therearethre e co
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re functions that society carries outtocollectively supporttheoptimumc ondi
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment