NUR 324 Exam #1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
-Patient/client-centered care
-Technology
-Increased personal responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 3 major changes
in healthcare since 2000?
To make sure that patients are empowered to have access to high-quality care no matter their
income, where they live, race, age, or illness - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
purpose of patient/client centered care?
-Electronic health records
-Telehealth - CORRECT ANSWER - What has changed in technology in healthcare since
2000?
Active responsibility in one's own health through education and lifestyle changes: reviewing
one's own records, test results, etc. Not thinking of the doctor as a repair shop - CORRECT
ANSWER - How has there been an increase in personal responsibility in healthcare since
2000?
-Social conditions of living
-Income
-Social status
-Literacy level
-Home and work environment
-Support network
-Gender
-Culture
-Availability of healthcare services - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the social
determinants of health?
,Differences in healthcare outcomes experienced by one population, often tied to race or ethnicity
or socioeconomic status - CORRECT ANSWER - What are healthcare disparities?
-Assess healthcare need and problems in a population of people
-Intervene by developing healthcare policy that provides access to services
-Ensures services are delivered and outcomes are achieved - CORRECT ANSWER -
What is the responsibility of the government (public health) in healthcare?
-*Focus on the aggregate*
-Promote prevention
-Encourage community organization
-Practice the ethical theory of the greater good
-Model leadership in health
-Use epidemiologic knowledge and methods - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the
principles of public health?
A group of people with common characteristics without necessarily having a direct connection
ex: Group of young mothers with postpartum hemorrhage, group of men with prostate
enlargement, group coal miners - CORRECT ANSWER - What is an aggregate?
-Policy development and enforcement
-Surveillance
-Disease and health event investigation
-Outreach
-Screening
-Referrals and follow-ups
-Care management
-Delegated functions
,-Health teaching
-Counseling
-Consultation
-Collaboration
-Coalition building
-Community organizing
-Advocacy
-Social marketing - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some public health interventions for
prevention?
-USDHHS
-CDC
-State Department of Health
-Social Services
-County and City Health Departments
In collaboration with: social service agencies, elementary and secondary schools, housing
department, police, fire department, parks and recreation department, librairies, public
transportation, and water and sewer authorities - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the
governmental agencies and public health (from the top down)?
Set of topic areas with objectives and evidence based resources for americans - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is healthy people?
-Access to healthcare
-Cost of healthcare
-Quality of healthcare (receiving appropriate healthcare in time for the services to be effective) -
CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 3 focus areas of health policy development?
-Quality care (right care, safe care, coordinated care, patient-centered care)
, -Access
-Efficiency
-Equity
-Long, healthy, productive lives
-Health expenditures per capita - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some issues in
healthcare?
-Vulnerability
-Health disparities
-Social determinants of health
-Genomics - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some contributing factors for underserved
populations?
-Depression
-Schizophrenia
-Substance abuse
-Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
-HIV/AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER - Underserved populations can apply to people with
specific health conditions like...
People in certain groups are not served equitably by public and private healthcare infrastructures
because of lack of access, racism, sexism, homophobia, and fear of what they do not understand -
CORRECT ANSWER - What is the definition of an underserved population?
-Lacking sufficient ability to advance health and wellness
-Greater need to look to others for solutions - CORRECT ANSWER - What is
vulnerability?
Systematic, plausibly *avoidable health differences affecting socially disadvantaged groups* -
CORRECT ANSWER - How does healthy people 2020 define health disparities?
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
-Patient/client-centered care
-Technology
-Increased personal responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 3 major changes
in healthcare since 2000?
To make sure that patients are empowered to have access to high-quality care no matter their
income, where they live, race, age, or illness - CORRECT ANSWER - What is the
purpose of patient/client centered care?
-Electronic health records
-Telehealth - CORRECT ANSWER - What has changed in technology in healthcare since
2000?
Active responsibility in one's own health through education and lifestyle changes: reviewing
one's own records, test results, etc. Not thinking of the doctor as a repair shop - CORRECT
ANSWER - How has there been an increase in personal responsibility in healthcare since
2000?
-Social conditions of living
-Income
-Social status
-Literacy level
-Home and work environment
-Support network
-Gender
-Culture
-Availability of healthcare services - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the social
determinants of health?
,Differences in healthcare outcomes experienced by one population, often tied to race or ethnicity
or socioeconomic status - CORRECT ANSWER - What are healthcare disparities?
-Assess healthcare need and problems in a population of people
-Intervene by developing healthcare policy that provides access to services
-Ensures services are delivered and outcomes are achieved - CORRECT ANSWER -
What is the responsibility of the government (public health) in healthcare?
-*Focus on the aggregate*
-Promote prevention
-Encourage community organization
-Practice the ethical theory of the greater good
-Model leadership in health
-Use epidemiologic knowledge and methods - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the
principles of public health?
A group of people with common characteristics without necessarily having a direct connection
ex: Group of young mothers with postpartum hemorrhage, group of men with prostate
enlargement, group coal miners - CORRECT ANSWER - What is an aggregate?
-Policy development and enforcement
-Surveillance
-Disease and health event investigation
-Outreach
-Screening
-Referrals and follow-ups
-Care management
-Delegated functions
,-Health teaching
-Counseling
-Consultation
-Collaboration
-Coalition building
-Community organizing
-Advocacy
-Social marketing - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some public health interventions for
prevention?
-USDHHS
-CDC
-State Department of Health
-Social Services
-County and City Health Departments
In collaboration with: social service agencies, elementary and secondary schools, housing
department, police, fire department, parks and recreation department, librairies, public
transportation, and water and sewer authorities - CORRECT ANSWER - What are the
governmental agencies and public health (from the top down)?
Set of topic areas with objectives and evidence based resources for americans - CORRECT
ANSWER - What is healthy people?
-Access to healthcare
-Cost of healthcare
-Quality of healthcare (receiving appropriate healthcare in time for the services to be effective) -
CORRECT ANSWER - What are the 3 focus areas of health policy development?
-Quality care (right care, safe care, coordinated care, patient-centered care)
, -Access
-Efficiency
-Equity
-Long, healthy, productive lives
-Health expenditures per capita - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some issues in
healthcare?
-Vulnerability
-Health disparities
-Social determinants of health
-Genomics - CORRECT ANSWER - What are some contributing factors for underserved
populations?
-Depression
-Schizophrenia
-Substance abuse
-Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
-HIV/AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER - Underserved populations can apply to people with
specific health conditions like...
People in certain groups are not served equitably by public and private healthcare infrastructures
because of lack of access, racism, sexism, homophobia, and fear of what they do not understand -
CORRECT ANSWER - What is the definition of an underserved population?
-Lacking sufficient ability to advance health and wellness
-Greater need to look to others for solutions - CORRECT ANSWER - What is
vulnerability?
Systematic, plausibly *avoidable health differences affecting socially disadvantaged groups* -
CORRECT ANSWER - How does healthy people 2020 define health disparities?
