Chapter 1: Community Health Nursing

Question 1

What is medicare?

Answer 1

tax-based publicly funded and administered health care system

Question 2

What are the five principles of Canada health act?

Answer 2

1. Public administration- Health care delivery
2. comprehensiveness- cover all insured/necessary services
3. universality- all permanent Canadian residents
4. portability- coverage between provinces
5. accessibility- access with no discrimination

Question 3

What is Public Health?

Answer 3

health of a population using the determinants of health and health status indicators as measurements.

Question 4

What is Ethics?

Answer 4

moral life right vs wrong. The concepts of equity and social justice

Question 5

What is equity?

Answer 5

3 principles to advance health equity
1. improve conditions of daily life
2. tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money, and resources
3. measure the problem, evaluate action, expand knowledge base, develop a workforce, and raise public awareness about the determinants of health

Question 6

What is social justice?

Answer 6

fair distribution of society’s benefits, responsibilities, and their consequences ensures fairness and equality in health services

Question 7

What is global health?

Answer 7

priority to improve health and achieve equity in health to all people worldwide.

Question 8

What are the three pillars of community health nursing?

Answer 8

1. evidence based practice
2. holistic care
3. primary health care

Question 9

What is primary prevention?

Answer 9

Seek to prevent events or actions that may result in alterations in desired health.
ex. immunizations

Question 10

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 10

Seek to detect, stop or reverse processes associated with alternate levels of health
ex. hypertension screenings

Question 11

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 11

Seek to prevent further progress of an altered state of health
ex. education of insulin