C228-Community Health Questions
and All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
Population based practice focuses on... - Answer entire populations
Population based practice emphasizes... - Answer all levels of prevention
Population based practice intervenes... - Answer with communities, systems,
individuals/families
What is a population? - Answer collection of individuals who have one or more personal or
environmental characteristics in common.
Population of interest - Answer is a population that is essentially healthy but one who could
improve factors that promote or protect health
Population at risk - Answer is a population with a common identified risk factor or risk-
exposure that poses a threat to health...ex. smokers, drug users, risky behavior
Population based practice: - Answer considers the broad determinants of health
focuses on the entire range of factors that determine health rather than just personal health
risks or disease
Primary prevention - Answer promotes health or keeps problems from occurring; ex.
immunizations, reduced exposure to environmental risk
Secondary prevention - Answer detects and treats problems early (takes place once disease
is present); ex. screening activities, early treatment
Tertiary prevention - Answer keeps existing problems from getting worse; ex. rehabilitation
intervention strategies, prevention of complete disability
Individual/family focused practice - Answer changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values,
practices, behaviors
Community focused practice - Answer changes community norms, attitudes, awareness,
practices, behaviors
, Systems focused practice - Answer changes organizations, policies, laws, power structures
To be a community health nurse, you need at least.... - Answer a bachelors degree
Characteristics of public health - Answer 10 essential services
Three core functions:
-assessment
-policy development and planning
-assurance
Institute of medicine- 7 public health priorities - Answer -understand and emphasize broad
determinants of health
-create a policy focus on population health
-strengthen the public health infrastructure
-build partnerships
-develop systems of accountability
-emphasize EBP
-enhance communication
Population - Answer collections of individuals with one or more personal or environmental
characteristics in common but that may not interact with each other
Community - Answer a collection of individuals defined by geography or social interest; a
group of people with some personal or environmental characteristics in common
Aggregate - Answer a collection of individuals who have 1 or more personal or
environmental characteristics in common; however, they may or may not be considered a
community
Community-focused - Answer concerned with health status of community members; disease
prevention/ health promotion/ outreach
Community-based - Answer includes the setting and practice of the community health nurse;
health facilities that provide acute treatment of the ill who reside near treatment center
and All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
Population based practice focuses on... - Answer entire populations
Population based practice emphasizes... - Answer all levels of prevention
Population based practice intervenes... - Answer with communities, systems,
individuals/families
What is a population? - Answer collection of individuals who have one or more personal or
environmental characteristics in common.
Population of interest - Answer is a population that is essentially healthy but one who could
improve factors that promote or protect health
Population at risk - Answer is a population with a common identified risk factor or risk-
exposure that poses a threat to health...ex. smokers, drug users, risky behavior
Population based practice: - Answer considers the broad determinants of health
focuses on the entire range of factors that determine health rather than just personal health
risks or disease
Primary prevention - Answer promotes health or keeps problems from occurring; ex.
immunizations, reduced exposure to environmental risk
Secondary prevention - Answer detects and treats problems early (takes place once disease
is present); ex. screening activities, early treatment
Tertiary prevention - Answer keeps existing problems from getting worse; ex. rehabilitation
intervention strategies, prevention of complete disability
Individual/family focused practice - Answer changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values,
practices, behaviors
Community focused practice - Answer changes community norms, attitudes, awareness,
practices, behaviors
, Systems focused practice - Answer changes organizations, policies, laws, power structures
To be a community health nurse, you need at least.... - Answer a bachelors degree
Characteristics of public health - Answer 10 essential services
Three core functions:
-assessment
-policy development and planning
-assurance
Institute of medicine- 7 public health priorities - Answer -understand and emphasize broad
determinants of health
-create a policy focus on population health
-strengthen the public health infrastructure
-build partnerships
-develop systems of accountability
-emphasize EBP
-enhance communication
Population - Answer collections of individuals with one or more personal or environmental
characteristics in common but that may not interact with each other
Community - Answer a collection of individuals defined by geography or social interest; a
group of people with some personal or environmental characteristics in common
Aggregate - Answer a collection of individuals who have 1 or more personal or
environmental characteristics in common; however, they may or may not be considered a
community
Community-focused - Answer concerned with health status of community members; disease
prevention/ health promotion/ outreach
Community-based - Answer includes the setting and practice of the community health nurse;
health facilities that provide acute treatment of the ill who reside near treatment center
