COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCEPTS NSG 221 MIDTERM MARIAN UNIVERSITY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

COMMUNITY HEALTH CONCEPTS NSG 221 MIDTERM MARIAN UNIVERSITY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Population - CORRECT ANSWER-group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area Public Health - CORRECT ANSWER-the practice of protecting and improving the health of people in a community primary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring. i.e. immunizations secondary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness that you cannot completely prevent. i.e. screening for cervical cancer tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWER-actions taken to contain damage once a disease or disability has progressed beyond its early stages i.e. teaching pt w/ diabetes how to administer insulin Community - CORRECT ANSWER-a collection or group of locally based individuals interacting in social units and sharing common interest, characteristics, value and goals Health People 2020 - CORRECT ANSWER-National Preventive initiative that focuses on improving the health of Americans by providing a comprehensive set of diseases prevention and health promotion goals and objectives with target dates Core Public Health Functions - CORRECT ANSWER--assessment- collection, anaylsis and info sharing about risk -policy development- use of info to develope health policy and resources -assurance- availability of necessary health services i.e. agencies. enforce laws and safety Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER--Founder of modern nursing - influence of environmental factors on health -emphasis on sanitation Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER--Establishment of public health in U.S. -House on Henry street nursing service -School nursing in New York City -National org of public health nursing President Elizabeth Poor Laws - CORRECT ANSWER-first social welfare policy implemented in colonial America, which outlined the public's responsibility for people who were poor endemic - CORRECT ANSWER-native or confined to a particular region or people Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER-Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. epidemic - CORRECT ANSWER-a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER-Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796 Evolution of health in Western - CORRECT ANSWER--Prerecorded historic times (before 5000 B.C.) vudu, isolation, fumagation -Classical times (3000 to 200 B.C.) cleanliness and management of communicable diseases -Middle Ages (500 to 1500 A.D.) priest and monks were PCP magic and religion,.wells, fountain, cleaning streets -Renaissance (15th, 16th, 17th centuries) care for poor -18th century imperialism, child labor, vaccination against small pox -19th century typhus and thphoid fever. General board of health england. communicable diseases flourished Stages of disease history - CORRECT ANSWER--Hunting and gathering (before 10,000 B.C.) parasites and insect bites, few contagious diseases -Settled villages (10,000 to 6000 B.C.) zoonosis, nutrient deficiency, waste disposal and water availability problems