SURE A+
✔✔What is the WHO? What do the SDG's (formerly MDG'S) mean? - ✔✔As the MDGs
era came to an end in 2015, WHO responded with the official launch of SDGs The new
Agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 SDGs by 2030
✔✔What is the history of the World Health Organization? - ✔✔created in 1946, as part
of the UN, to find solutions for post-World War II Europe. Any member country of the
UN can be a member of WHO
✔✔How do you assess an area's resources and its relationship to the health of a
region? - ✔✔By focusing on Population health take into account the emergent
properties of social structure, such as cultural norms, poverty, social policies, and
distribution of primary care physicians, in conjunction with microlevel properties, such as
genetics, gender, ethnicity, educational level, and individual health behaviors.
✔✔fairness - ✔✔the state, condition, or quality of being fair, or free from bias or
injustice; evenhandedness.
✔✔Ethics - ✔✔the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making
decisions
✔✔Social justice - ✔✔the fair and equitable distribution of power, resources, and
obligations in society to all people, regardless of race or ethnicity, age, gender, ability
status, sexual orientation, and religious or spiritual background
✔✔How do ethics and public policy intersect? - ✔✔they intersect when connecting
social justice theory to advocacy, health disparities and to outcomes.
The key to social justice is improving health outcomes AND simultaneously improving
the social gradient and reducing health inequalities
✔✔What influence do you as a provider have regarding public policy? What ethical
obligation do you believe you have? - ✔✔APRNs are expected to provide health
promotion and risk reduction and illness prevention for individuals and populations.
No longer can APNs focus on individuals; they must practice based on aggregates of
populations that share a common characteristic
ie: pregnant teen mothers
✔✔How is risk reduction, assessment, and outcomes related to public health policy? -
✔✔no longer feasible or realistic for one provider to do it all must partner with
community agencies and be aware of the resources each community partner offers to
promote health and reduce disease chronicity.