WGU D450 CHPT 1 COMMUNITY AND
PREVENTION ORIENTED PRACTICE TO
IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH
1. State the mission and core functions of public health, the essential public health
services, and the quality performance standards program in public health.
2. Describe specialization in public health nursing and other nurse roles in the
community and the practice goals of each.
3. Describe what is meant by population health.
4. Identify barriers to the practice of community and prevention-oriented,
population-focused practice.
5. Describe the importance of the social determinants of health to the health of a
population.
6. State key opportunities for nurses in public health practice. - CORRECT ANSWER
Objectives
•COVID-19 Pandemic
•Concern with cost of medical care & the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010
,•US health & life expectancy worse than other high-income countries - CORRECT
ANSWER Recently increased attention to public health
•Public health as a broad field of practice
•Population health
•Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER focus of this chapter-
PUBLIC HEALTH as a broad field of practice which is the backbone of the
infrastructure supporting the health of a country, state, province, city, town or
community. - CORRECT ANSWER Public health as a broad field of practice
-which can be viewed as a particularly important set of analytical strategies and
approaches first used in public health to describe, analyze, and mobilize efforts to
improve health in community-based populations and now being used in initiatives
to improve outcomes of clinical populations - CORRECT ANSWER POPULATION
HEALTH:
Public health nursing and emerging opportunities for nurses practicing in a variety
of settings to be engaged in community-based population focused efforts to
improve the health of populations. - CORRECT ANSWER Public health nursing
This is a crucial time for public health nursing, a time of opportunity and
challenge.
, -The following discussion explains why those who practice community and
prevention-oriented, population-focused nursing will be in a very strong position
to affect the health of populations and decisions about how scarce resources will
be used. - CORRECT ANSWER Focus of this chapter:
"what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people
can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
-healthy 2030 goals focuses on improving health of people in general - CORRECT
ANSWER Public Health Practice definition:
•"to generate organized community efforts to address the public interest in health
by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote
health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995)
•Accomplished by many groups (public & private) & individuals, with special
function of the government - CORRECT ANSWER public health practice mission:
In 1988 the Institute of Medicine published a report on the future of public
health, which is now seen as a classic and influential document. In the report,
public health was defined as "what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
The committee stated that the mission of public health was "to generate
organized community efforts to address the public interest in health by applying
scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health" (IOM,
1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995).
PREVENTION ORIENTED PRACTICE TO
IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH
1. State the mission and core functions of public health, the essential public health
services, and the quality performance standards program in public health.
2. Describe specialization in public health nursing and other nurse roles in the
community and the practice goals of each.
3. Describe what is meant by population health.
4. Identify barriers to the practice of community and prevention-oriented,
population-focused practice.
5. Describe the importance of the social determinants of health to the health of a
population.
6. State key opportunities for nurses in public health practice. - CORRECT ANSWER
Objectives
•COVID-19 Pandemic
•Concern with cost of medical care & the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010
,•US health & life expectancy worse than other high-income countries - CORRECT
ANSWER Recently increased attention to public health
•Public health as a broad field of practice
•Population health
•Public health nursing - CORRECT ANSWER focus of this chapter-
PUBLIC HEALTH as a broad field of practice which is the backbone of the
infrastructure supporting the health of a country, state, province, city, town or
community. - CORRECT ANSWER Public health as a broad field of practice
-which can be viewed as a particularly important set of analytical strategies and
approaches first used in public health to describe, analyze, and mobilize efforts to
improve health in community-based populations and now being used in initiatives
to improve outcomes of clinical populations - CORRECT ANSWER POPULATION
HEALTH:
Public health nursing and emerging opportunities for nurses practicing in a variety
of settings to be engaged in community-based population focused efforts to
improve the health of populations. - CORRECT ANSWER Public health nursing
This is a crucial time for public health nursing, a time of opportunity and
challenge.
, -The following discussion explains why those who practice community and
prevention-oriented, population-focused nursing will be in a very strong position
to affect the health of populations and decisions about how scarce resources will
be used. - CORRECT ANSWER Focus of this chapter:
"what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions in which people
can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
-healthy 2030 goals focuses on improving health of people in general - CORRECT
ANSWER Public Health Practice definition:
•"to generate organized community efforts to address the public interest in health
by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote
health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995)
•Accomplished by many groups (public & private) & individuals, with special
function of the government - CORRECT ANSWER public health practice mission:
In 1988 the Institute of Medicine published a report on the future of public
health, which is now seen as a classic and influential document. In the report,
public health was defined as "what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the
conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
The committee stated that the mission of public health was "to generate
organized community efforts to address the public interest in health by applying
scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health" (IOM,
1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995).
