WGU D450 POPULATION HEALTH EXAM 1 MODULE 1 COMMUNITY AND
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
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Term
Epidemiologic approach to community assessment
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-Describing the health of a population; person, place, time
-Determining relationships that can predict health and illness
-Developing and testing interventions to empower communities and effect
change
Focus on community.
Give priority to community needs.
Work in partnership with the people.
Focus on primary prevention.
Promote a healthful environment.
Target all who might benefit.
Promote optimum allocation of resources.
Collaborate with others in the community.
, -Observation of a community while driving a car or riding public transportation to
collect data for a community assessment
-Incorporates 15 components that help define community boundaries
1.Status/people; morbidity and mortality
2.Structure of a community; services and resources
3. Process; ability to function effectively
4. Location; community boundaries, geographic features
5. Population size, density, social class
6.Social system; variables
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Term
Community Diagnoses
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-Portray a community focus
-Include community response and related factors that have potential for
change via CHN; logically consistent; response and factors logically linked
-Include statements narrow enough to guide interventions
-Use a community response instead of a risk, goal, or need statement
-Include factors within the domain of community health nursing intervention
-Deficit and wellness diagnoses, which include maintenance or potential
change responses (due to growth and development) when no deficit is
present
, -People as central members of the community and parts of the community that
interact with members of the community
-The parts of the community that interact with members of the community; physical
environment, economy, etc.
-A healthy community attends to and achieves the goals of Healthy People 2020.
-A community-wide group of people as the focus of nursing service
-The community directly influences the health of individuals, families, groups,
subpopulations, and populations who are a part of it.
-Provision of most health services occurs at the community level.
-Observation of a community while driving a car or riding public transportation to
collect data for a community assessment
-Incorporates 15 components that help define community boundaries
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Term
Public health
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Group of people who come Employs population-based skills and
together to solve a problem that is shaped by the characteristics and
affects all of them needs of a given community
, Identification of needs and the Activities that society
protection and improvement of undertakes to assure the
collective health within a conditions in which people can
geographically defined area be healthy
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5 overarching goals of Healthy People 2030
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1. Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable
disease, disability, injury and premature death.
2.Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
to improve the health and well-being of all.
3.Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote
attaining full potential for health and well-being for all.
4. Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all
life stages.
5. Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple
sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and
well-being of all.
Useful to depict a comprehensive list of nursing interventions
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the
distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
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Term
Epidemiologic approach to community assessment
Give this one a go later!
-Describing the health of a population; person, place, time
-Determining relationships that can predict health and illness
-Developing and testing interventions to empower communities and effect
change
Focus on community.
Give priority to community needs.
Work in partnership with the people.
Focus on primary prevention.
Promote a healthful environment.
Target all who might benefit.
Promote optimum allocation of resources.
Collaborate with others in the community.
, -Observation of a community while driving a car or riding public transportation to
collect data for a community assessment
-Incorporates 15 components that help define community boundaries
1.Status/people; morbidity and mortality
2.Structure of a community; services and resources
3. Process; ability to function effectively
4. Location; community boundaries, geographic features
5. Population size, density, social class
6.Social system; variables
Don't know?
2 of 41
Term
Community Diagnoses
Give this one a go later!
-Portray a community focus
-Include community response and related factors that have potential for
change via CHN; logically consistent; response and factors logically linked
-Include statements narrow enough to guide interventions
-Use a community response instead of a risk, goal, or need statement
-Include factors within the domain of community health nursing intervention
-Deficit and wellness diagnoses, which include maintenance or potential
change responses (due to growth and development) when no deficit is
present
, -People as central members of the community and parts of the community that
interact with members of the community
-The parts of the community that interact with members of the community; physical
environment, economy, etc.
-A healthy community attends to and achieves the goals of Healthy People 2020.
-A community-wide group of people as the focus of nursing service
-The community directly influences the health of individuals, families, groups,
subpopulations, and populations who are a part of it.
-Provision of most health services occurs at the community level.
-Observation of a community while driving a car or riding public transportation to
collect data for a community assessment
-Incorporates 15 components that help define community boundaries
Don't know?
3 of 41
Term
Public health
Give this one a go later!
Group of people who come Employs population-based skills and
together to solve a problem that is shaped by the characteristics and
affects all of them needs of a given community
, Identification of needs and the Activities that society
protection and improvement of undertakes to assure the
collective health within a conditions in which people can
geographically defined area be healthy
Don't know?
4 of 41
Term
5 overarching goals of Healthy People 2030
Give this one a go later!
1. Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable
disease, disability, injury and premature death.
2.Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
to improve the health and well-being of all.
3.Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote
attaining full potential for health and well-being for all.
4. Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all
life stages.
5. Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple
sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and
well-being of all.
Useful to depict a comprehensive list of nursing interventions
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the
distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
