Community Health

Question 1

Type of nursing care that is considered the last piece of the puzzle

Answer 1

Community health

Question 2

What is the difference between community health vs public health?

Answer 2

Community health is the idea of helping a group by following trends or individual by going out in the community itself.
Public health is more government based.

Question 3

An example of a community health issue such as asthma?

Answer 3

Asthma can be related to the air quality out in the community

Question 4

How is an individuals behavior an factor in community health?

Answer 4

It takes effort from everyone to improve the community but we also have different types of personalities as well. And individuality is important.

• Leaders, doers, idea makers, followers

Question 5

How can social/cultural factor influence community health?

Answer 5

Beliefs, traditions, religion are all influencers.

Economy & politics.

Prejudices & socioeconomic status

Question 6

How can organizational factors influence the community health?

Answer 6

It really comes down to whether an organization is more public or private (taxes).
But need to keep in mind organization within the community is good.

Question 7

How can the physical factors of the area affect community health?

Answer 7

Need to consider how developed the area is, the community size, the environment, and geography.

Question 8

Why is it important to take all factors of the area into consideration when working with community health?

Answer 8

It helps you provide a more complete care.

Question 9

Example of a tracking method that can help keep track of health

Answer 9

Report card rt Unite Health Foundation

Base off a map

Question 10

Data concerning health issues has how long of a lab time?

Answer 10

2 years

Question 11

Can public health affect the community though?

Answer 11

yes duh

Question 12

What is infant mortality like in US?

Answer 12

High but it has dropped

Question 13

How has life expectancy changed?

Answer 13

Life expectancy is a lot longer now

Question 14

Does our population generally have a decent control on disease outbreaks ?

Answer 14

Usually. covid being the exception lol

Question 15

Can you define public health?

Answer 15

When we as a society try to control conditions that affect everyone’s health in society’s best interest
Very broad scope care working to prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health

Question 16

Type of health that involved an individual’s actions and decisions which affect their health or those around them

Answer 16

Personal Health

Question 17

Type of health where the health of concern is the general health of a population or community

Answer 17

Community health -

but it can involve individual care too.

Question 18

What does medical care focus on?

What about public health?

Answer 18

One person really for medical care

Public health looks at more. We identify issues & provide prevention strategies.

Question 19

What do we use to justify certain redefining of the community standards

Answer 19

It can often come down to when we no longer feel as though something is tolerable.
Ex:
seat belts, car seats, no smoking in restaurants.. etc.

Question 20

How did drunk driving become outlawed?

Answer 20

A group of mothers brought awareness to the big issue & made it happen.

Question 21

Federal systems

Answer 21

HHS or health and human services, CDC, NIH, FDA - drugs, EPA - environment

Question 22

State system

Answer 22

KDHE - ks department of health and environment

Question 23

Local systems

Answer 23

Sedgwick County

City of Wichita

Question 24

Primary prevention

Answer 24

First step in trying to deter people from participating in harmful activities that effects their health - keep the issue from ever occurring.
Example: Try to get kids to wear helmets.

Question 25

Secondary prevention

Answer 25

Go looking for any current problem in order to treat it and prevent it from getting worse.

We definitely want to try to detect the issues as early as possible to prevent more issues!

Ex: mammograms for breast cancer; it prevents health problems

Question 26

Tertiary prevention

Answer 26

Help someone deal with on going issues of a condition to reduce extent and severity

Ex: Chemo, MOW

Question 27

Common principle of public health when deciding whether or not something should be re-defined?

Answer 27

Is it the “greatest good for the greatest amount of people”.

This is where people will have conflicts.

Question 28

Is a common theme in public health equity or more everyone for themselves?

Answer 28

More equity

Question 29

What should interventions be based off of?

Answer 29

Scientific principles

Question 30

T/F

Public health can be political in nature

Answer 30

true due to it always expanding and it linking with the government

Question 31

T/F

Public health is tied to social justice

Answer 31

True.

Apart of social justice is equity.

Question 32

Core functions of PH that are involved in the nursing process?

Answer 32

We do an *assessment to gain information and insight.

• Policy development w a nursing diagnosis of the issue & implementation of strategies.
• Assurance to make sure something is ongoing and doing as expected which can also include implementation and evaluation.

Question 33

How are nursing surveys imporant?

Answer 33

By asking nurses their experience with certain things, the community was able to figure out a big problem.
Ex: hormones causing cardiac issues

Question 34

Are there laws that can enforce forced treatment?

Answer 34

Yes. It is done to protect health.

Ex: Those with TB must accept treatment

Question 35

Who is responsible for informing and educating people about public health issues?

Answer 35

Community health

Question 36

Is it easy to eliminate health disparities?

Answer 36

No it is a challenge that community health faces

Question 37

Is the goal to live longer period?

Answer 37

No, it needs to be healthier therefore quality is important

Question 38

Can the environment have a control over public health?

Answer 38

Yes it can and it is a challenge that we face as a society

Question 39

Can we control bioterrorism and war?

Answer 39

No, there will always be someone who wants power but we need to try to work through it as best as possible. Definitely a challenge as well.