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1. PublicHealthandNursingPractice
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2. Optimizing Population Health z! z!
3. EpidemiologyandNursing Practice z! z! z!
4. IntroductiontoCommunityAssessment z! z! z!
5. HealthProgramPlanning
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6. Environmental Health z!
II. CommunityHealthAcross Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. HealthDisparitiesandthe SocialDeterminantsofHealth
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8. HealthandVulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases z!
10. Noncommunicable Diseases z!
11. MentalHealth z!
12. SubstanceUseandtheHealthofCommunities z! z! z! z! z! z!
13. InjuryandViolence
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III. PublicHealth Planning
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14. HealthPlanning for LocalPublicHealthDepartments
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15. HealthPlanning forAcuteCare Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. HealthPlanning withRural andUrbanCommunities
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18. HealthPlanning for Maternal-Infantand Child HealthSettings
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19. HealthPlanning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. HealthPlanning,PublicHealthPolicy,andFinance
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22. HealthPlanning for Emergency Preparedness andDisaster Management
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Chapter1:PublicHealthandNursingPractice
MultipleChoice
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identifythechoicethatbestcompletesthestatementoranswersthequestion.
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1. Public healthnurses (PHNs) know theymust approach a public healthissu e
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withan understanding of therelated underlying riskfactorstodevelop effe ct
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ive nursing interventions. They evaluate theseriskfactorsfromtwoperspe cti
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ves:
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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3. Organizationofmedicalandnursingservicesfortheearlydi a z! z! z! z! z! z! z!
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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WHO),whichis: z!
1. ThepublichealtharmoftheUnitedNations. z! z! z! z!
2. Workingtoimprovehealthandwell- z! z! z! z!
z! beingfortheglobalpopulation.
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3. Workingwithnursestopromotepublichealthinterventions. z! z! z!
4. Alloftheabove. z! z!
4. TheInstituteofMedicine(IOM),nowknownastheHealthandMedicineDi vis
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ion(HMD)oftheNationalAcademiesofSciences,Engineering,andMedici ne, st
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ated intheirreport, The Futureofthe Public’s Health, that therearethre e core f
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unctions that society carries outtocollectively supporttheoptimumc ondition
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sforpublichealth.Which oneof thefollowingisnotoneof these funct ions? z! z! z! z! z!
1. Prevention
2. Assessment