Community Health Midterm Flashcards
o Screening
identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in
populations.
o Surveillance
“an ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to
the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice”
o Referral
makes a connection to necessary resources to prevent or resolve problems or concerns. Follow-up
assesses outcomes related to the utilization of the resources.
o Health teaching
involves sharing information and experiences through educational activities designed to
improve health knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and skills
o Coalition building
helps promote and develop alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common
purpose. It builds links, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns
o Collaboration
enhances the capacity to promote and protect health for mutual benefit and a common purpose.
Collaboration involves exchanging information, harmonized activities, and shared resources
o Aggregate population
groups of people with common or similar problems that can be very broad or specific; population-based approach
o Community
group of people
o Qualitative data
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o Quantitative data
numbers
o Community nursing diagnosis
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o Risk
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changes organizations, policies, laws and power structures. Often impacts population health in a more effective and lasting ways than changing individuals
Systems-focused
changes community norms, attitudes, awareness, practices ad behaviors of a community or population. Measured by the proportion of the population that actually changes their behavior
Community-focused
changes knowledge attitudes, beliefs, practices and behaviors of individuals and families. Individuals receive services because they are identified as belonging to a population at risk
Individual/family-focused
“an ongoing, systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of health-related data essential to
the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice
tracking case numbers
MN wheel: surveillance
systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to the health
of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies cases and others at risk, and determines control
measures.
contact tracing
MN wheel: disease and health event investigation
locates populations of interest or populations at risk and provides information about the nature of the
concern, what can be done about it, and how to obtain services
organization of free testing events
MN wheel: outreach
covid testing
identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in
populations.
MN wheel: screening
places health issues on decision-makers’ agendas, establishes a plan of resolution,
determines needed resources, and results in laws, rules and regulations, ordinances, and policies. Policy
enforcement compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created in
conjunction with policy development.
legally changing laws/mandates for health
MN wheel: policy development & enforcement
process “that uses marketing principles and techniques to change target audience
behaviors to benefit society as well as the individual”
CDC mask wearing flyers
MN wheel: social marketing
act of promoting and protecting the health of individuals and communities “by collaborating
with relevant stakeholders, facilitating access to health and social services, and actively engaging key decisionmakers to support and enact policies to improve community health outcomes”
bringing public health issue to light at a meeting
MN wheel: advocacy
“the process by which people come together to identify common problems or goals,
mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the objectives they want to accomplish”
MN wheel: community-organizing
