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e:Caring for Populations 3rd Edition by Christine L. Savage,
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Chapters 1 - 22, Complete
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TABLE OF CONTENTS c c c
I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills
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1. Public Health and Nursing Practice
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2. Optimizing Population Health
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3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice
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4. Introduction to Community Assessment
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5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health
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II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues
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7. Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health
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8. Health and Vulnerable Populations
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9. Communicable Diseases
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10. Noncommunicable Diseases
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11. Mental Health
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12. Substance Use and the Health of Communities
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13. Injury and Violence
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III. Public Health Planning
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14. Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments
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15. Health Planning for Acute Care Settings
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16. Health Planning for Primary Care Settings
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17. Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities
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18. Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings
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19. Health Planning for School Settings
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20. Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health
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21. Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance
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22. Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management
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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice c c
Answers are at the end of Each chapter
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health i
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ssuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to develo
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p effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors from tw
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o perspectives:
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1. Disease; individual c
2. Intervention; government c
3. Epidemic; population c
4. Individual; population c
c 2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to
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C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some of the goals of public health include dis
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ease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable infections,a
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1. Risk assessment for disease
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2. Promotion of primary care c c c
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3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early c c c c c c c c c
diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease
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4. Governmental safety regulations c c
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3. If the international medical community was working to contain sever
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al worldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health Organizati
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on(WHO), which is:
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1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
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2. Working to improve health and well- c c c c c
being for the globalpopulation.
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above. c c c
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4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicin
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e Division (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
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Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health, that ther
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e are three core functions that society carries out to collectively supportthe
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optimum conditions for public health. Which one of the following is notone
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of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment