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TABLE OF CONTENTS ff ff




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 f f f f




3. Epidemiology and Nursing Practice f f f f f f




4. Introduction to Community Assessment f f f f f f




5. Health Program Planning
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6. Environmental Health f f




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 f f




10. Noncommunicable Diseases f f




11. Mental Health f f




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 f f f f f f Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management f f f f f f f f f f

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Chapter 1: Public Health and NursingPractice
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Multiple Choice ff




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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
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issuewith an understanding of the related underlying risk factors to
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develop effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk
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factorsfrom two perspectives:
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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
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includedisease prevention, promoting health, control of
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communicable infections,and
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1. Risk assessment for disease ff ff ff




2. Promotion of primary care ff ff ff

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3. If the international medical community was working to contain
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severalworldwide pandemics, they would look to the World Health
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Organization(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-being for
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3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
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4. All of the above.
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4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and
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MedicineDivision (HMD) of the National Academies of Sciences,
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Engineering, andMedicine, stated in their report, The Future of the
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Public’s Health, that there are three core functions that society
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carries out to collectively supportthe optimum conditions for public
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health. Which one of the following is notone of these functions?
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1. Prevention
2. Assessment