Ch 6

Question 1

Healthy communities

Answer 1

Complex communities receive many varied stimuli
Community’s ability to respond effectively to changing dynamics and meet needs of members indicates productive functioning
Examine community’s functions and subsys provides clues to existing and potential health probs
Movements urge members and leaders to bring + health changes in local environments; involving many cities around nation and world, models stress interconnectedness
Each community and aggregate has a unique perspective on critical health qualities
Work with the community to develop effective solutions that are acceptable to residents

Question 2

Assessing community: sources of data

Answer 2

Understand nature by traveling through the area
Establish certain hypotheses about health, strengths, hunches, potential health probs through shoe leather epidemiology - support with concrete data
Windshield survey - driving/walking through an area and making organized observations: layout, services, concerns; observe people
Imp analyze demographic and statistical data to provide descriptive info about the pop
Epidemiology: involves analysis of health data to discover patterns of health and illness; nature health probs and identify aggreagates at increased risk
Census data
Vital stats
Other sources

Question 3

Census data (Assessing community: sources of data)

Answer 3

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Tabulates demographic variables: pop size and distribution
Community survey - every year - occupation and income
Provide clues to community’s potential vulnerabilities/health risks; identify trends overtime can modify programs to meed changing needs

Question 4

Vital stats (Assessing community: sources of data)

Answer 4

Births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions
State health dept
Provide info about pop growth/reduc
Certificates with deaths about cause 
Birth certificates with info

Question 5

Other sources (Assessing community: sources of data)

Answer 5

NCHS - describe health trends in national sample; reports prevalence disability, illness, health-related variables

Question 6

Diagnosing health probs

Answer 6

Synthesizing assessment data - nurse plans examine data and creates list all actual and potential probs; then develop diagnostic statements about community’s health
Specify nature and cause of actual/potential health prob and direct community nurses’ to solve prob
4 components: identification of health prob/risk (synthesis of all data), affected aggregated/community, etiological/causal statement, evidence/support for diagnosis