FOUNDATIONS AND POPULATION HEALTH
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
- National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council
- Prevention and Public Health Fund
- Improvements in prevention (Task force on Preventive Services) - CORRECT
ANSWER Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
- Time of opportunity and challenge
- Growing costs
- Changing U.S. demography
- Bioterrorism
- Epidemic prevention - CORRECT ANSWER Why the new need for public health
nursing:
- population-based prevention - CORRECT ANSWER Public Health has an emphasis
on:
- Foundation for healthy populations
- Solid history of preventive improvements
- Institute of Medicine Report 2013 - CORRECT ANSWER Public Health Practice:
, - Clearly noted that the mission could be accomplished by many groups, public
and private, and by individuals
- Government "to see to it that vital elements are in place and that the mission is
adequately addressed" - CORRECT ANSWER Definitions in Public Health:
- Healthy people in healthy communities - CORRECT ANSWER Vision of Public
Health:
- Promote physical and mental health
- Prevent disease, injury, and disability - CORRECT ANSWER Mission of Public
Health:
- assessment
- policy development
- assurance - CORRECT ANSWER Public Health Core Functions:
- Community, population-based promotion and prevention - CORRECT ANSWER
Public health nursing aims to focus more on:
- Analytic/assessment
- Policy development/program planning
- Communication
- Cultural competency
- Community dimensions of practice
- Basic public health sciences