Chapter 46 Key Terms Flashcards
Public Health
A field of medicine that deals with the physical and mental health of the community, particularly in such areas as water supply, waste disposal, air pollution, and food safety.
- not a branch of medicine; it is an organized community approach designed to prevent disease, promote health, and protect populations
Federal Public Health Agencies
Federal-level government agencies that develop regulations to implement policies formulated by Congress and provide a significant amount of funding to state and territorial health agencies for public health activities.
- develop regulations that implement policies formulated by Congress, provide a significant amount of funding to state and territorial health agencies for public health activities, survey the nation’s health status and health needs, set practices and standards, provide expertise that facilitates evidence-based practice, coordinate public health activities that cross state lines, and support health services research
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Incident Commander
public health nurses respond to community-wide disease outbreaks within the framework of the incident command structure. In a widespread public health emergency is a new role Issues such as how to conduct mass treatment
in response to a bioterrorism event, which jurisdiction is
in charge, how to communicate uncertain information to the
public, and who should take antibiotics for how long had to be
rapidly resolved across jurisdictional and agency lines
Local Public Health Agencies
have responsibilities that vary depending on the locality, but they are the agencies that are responsible for implementing and enforcing local, state, and federal public health codes and ordinances and providing essential public health programs to a community
Partnerships
Relationships between individuals, groups, or organizations in which the parties are working together to achieve a joint goal; it is often used synonymously with coalitions and alliances, although partnerships usually have focused goals, such as jointly providing a specific program. Partnerships generally involve shared power.
Public Health Nursing
A field of nursing that is concerned with the health needs of the community as a whole. Public health nurses may work with families in the home, in schools, at the workplace, in government agencies, and at major health facilities.
- the health of communities is a shared responsibility that requires a variety of diverse and often nontraditional partnerships
Public Health Programs
designed with the goal of improving a population’s
health status.
State Public health agency
Each of the U.S. states and territories has a single identified official state public health agency, managed by a state health commissioner.
- managed by a state health commissioner
