Chapter 18 Flashcards
aggregate
a collection of individuals who have in common one or more personal or environmental characteristics.
Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health
a planning tool developed for local health officials to assess the organization and management of the health department, provide a framework for working with community members and other organizations to assess the health status of the community, and establish the leadership role of the health department in the community.
change agent
nursing role that facilitates change in client or agency behavior to more readily achieve goals. This role stresses gathering and analyzing facts and implementing programs.
change partner
the nurse whose role is to act as an enabler-catalyst, teacher of problem-solving skills, and activist advocate with the client to create a positive outcome on the client’s behalf.
community
people and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in common some agencies and institutions and a physical environment; a locality-based entity composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, information groups, and aggregates and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs. The target of population-centered practice.
community-as-partner model
an assessment guide model developed by Anderson and McFarlane in 1995 that illustrates how communities change and grow best by full involvement and self-empowerment. It presents an assessment wheel with people in the center and eight subsystems that affect and are affected by people surrounding them.
community assessment
process of critically thinking about the community and getting to know and understand the community as a client. Assessments help identify community needs, clarify problems, and identify strengths and resources.
community competence
process whereby the parts of a community—organizations, groups, and advocates—are able to collaborate effectively in identifying the problems and needs of the community, can achieve a working consensus on goals, and can collaborate effectively on the required actions.
community health
the meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing interactions within the community and the larger society; a function of the energy, the individuality, and the relationships of the community as a whole and of all its constituents. The goal of population-centered practice.
community health problems
actual or potential difficulties within a target population with identifiable causes and consequences in the environment.
community health strength
resources available to meet a community health need.
community partnership
collaborative decision-making process in which community members and professionals participate.
community reconnaissance
the Web-based equivalent of a physical assessment for an individual; “reconnaissance” refers to the use of Web-based resources to collect community-related data.
confidentiality
controlling the disclosure of personal information and limiting the access of others to sensitive information.
database
collection of gathered and generated data.
data collection
the process of acquiring existing information or developing new information.
data gathering
the process of obtaining existing, readily available data.
data generation
the development of data, frequently qualitative rather than numerical, by the data collector.
early adopters
individuals and/or groups with cosmopolitan rather than local orientations, with abilities to adopt new ideas from mass media rather than face-to-face information sources, and with specialized rather than global interests.
empowerment
helping people acquire the skills and information necessary for informed decision making and ensuring that they have the authority to make decisions that affect them.