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What is public health?

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What society does collectively to assure conditions in which people can be healthy

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What is public health nursing?

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Developing interventions for individuals, populations, and communities, both locally and from a global perspective

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What are the cornerstones of PHN?

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Population based
Grounded in social justice
Focus on greater good
Does what others cannot or will not
Driven by the science of epidemiology
Organizes community resources
Long-term commitment to the community
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Core functions of PH

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Assessment: systematic data collection, analysis, and monitoring

Policy Development: Using scientific knowledge to develop comprehensive PH policies

Assurance: Assuring constituents that public health agencies provide the services necessary to achieve agreed upon goals

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What is population?

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A collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common
(ex: all older adults at risk for falls or Everyone who drinks well water)

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What are the 10 essential services of PH?

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  1. Assess and monitor population health status, factors that influence health, and community needs and assets
  2. Investigate, diagnose, and address health problems and hazards affecting the population
  3. Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, influencing factors, and how to improve it
  4. Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health
  5. Create, champion, and implement policies, plans, and laws that impact health
  6. Utilize legal and regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health
  7. Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy
  8. Build and support a diverse and skilled public health workforce
  9. Improve and innovate public health functions through ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement
  10. Build and maintain a strong organization infrastructure for public health
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What is the Socio-Ecological Model/Upstream Approach?

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Multiple determinants of health

Population and environmental approach are critical

Links and relationships between levels are crucial

Includes physical environmental factors

Includes social environmental factors

Encompasses neighborhoods, communities, institutions, and policies

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What is Healthy People 2030?

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10 yr measurable public health objectives

“Vision” = A society in which all people their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan

“Mission” = To promote and evaluate the nation’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of its people

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What are the levels of prevention?

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Primary (preventing diseases, seatbelts, helmets)

Secondary (early detection and treatment, screenings)

Tertiary (preventing further complications in people already diagnosed, rehab, support groups)

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What is Population Health?

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The lifespan, wellness and disease experiences of aggregate groups of people residing in local, state, national, or international geographic regions or those populations with common charcteristics

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History of PHN

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Lillian Wald = First PHN, Henry Street Settlement

Florence Nightingale = Founder of Modern Nursing, Crimea

Social Determinants of Health = Socioeconomic conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status

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What are Upstream SODH?

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Factors based on behavior (smoking, diet, drug use etc.)

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The Intervention Wheel: Case Finding (a)

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The individual level of surveillance, disease, and other health event investigation, outreach, and screening

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Intervention Wheel: Surveillance

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Describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health interventions

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Intervention Wheel: Disease and other health investigations

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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

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Intervention Wheel: Outreach

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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 services can be obtained

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Intervention Wheel: Screening

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Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations

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Intervention Wheel: Case Finding (b)

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Locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with resources

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Intervention Wheel: Referral and Follow-up

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Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities to identify and access necessary resources in order to prevent or resolve problems or concerns.

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Intervention Wheel: Case Management

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Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the capacity to of systems and communities to coordinate and provide services

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Intervention Wheel: Delegated Functions

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Direct care tasks an RN carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by the law. DF also include any direct care tasks an RN entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform.

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Intervention Wheel: Health Teaching

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Communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, and values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities

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Intervention Wheel: Counseling

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Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, system, family, or individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping

Engages the community, system, family, or individual at an emotional level

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Intervention Wheel: Consultation

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Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family, or individual. The community, system, family, or individual selects and acts on the option best meeting the cirumstances

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Intervention Wheel: Collaboration

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Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members to promote and protect health

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Intervention Wheel: Coalition Building

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Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems, and/or enhances local leadership to address health concerns

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Intervention Wheel: Community Organizing

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Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilizes resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.

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Intervention Wheel: Advocacy

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Pleads someone’s cause or acts on someone’s behalf, with a focus on developing the capacity of the community, system, individual, or family to plead their own cause or act on their own behalf

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Intervention Wheel: Social Marketing

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Uses commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population of interest

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Intervention Wheel: Policy Development

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Places health issues on decision-maker’s agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, and determines needed resources. Policy development results in laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies

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Intervention Wheel: Policy Enforcement

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Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created in conjuncture with policy development

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What re the Domains of Learning?

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Cognitive (Knowledge)
Psychomotor (Skills)
Affective (Attitudes)

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What are the steps in planning a health education program?

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Reflect and Strategize
Identify and Engage Stakeholders
Define the Community
Collect and Analyze the Data
Prioritize Community Health Issues
Document and Communicate Results
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What is health literacy? What is important to consider?

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The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.

It is important to consider individual, population, and culture/language

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How do you assess population?

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Collect, analyze, and use data

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What are the different approaches/tools to Community Assessment?

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Comprehensive Assessment
Population-focused Assessment
Setting-specific Assessment
Problem or Health-issue based Assessment
Health Impact Assessment
Rapid needs Assessment
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What are the steps in doing an assessment?

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Assessing Need
Setting goals and objectives
Developing an intervention
Implementing the intervention
Evaluating the results
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Community Health Assessment and Group Eval (CHANGE) (8)

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  1. Assemble the community
  2. Develop a team
  3. Review community sectors
  4. Gather data from each sector
  5. Review data and reach consensus
  6. Enter data
  7. Analyze data and assign rating to each sector
  8. Build an action plan
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Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) (6)

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  1. Organizing for success
  2. Vision
  3. Performing four assessments
  4. Identifying strategic issues
  5. Formulation of goals and strategies
  6. Action
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Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)

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Must consider input from “persons who represent the broad interests of the community served by the hospital facility, including those with special knowledge of or expertise in public health”

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Community as Partner (Anderson and McFarlane)

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Based on nursing process and theories

Emphasizes dynamic nature of community systems as integral to health of residents

Subsystems include: physical environment, health and social services economy, politics and gov, communication, education, and recreation

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What are the different program planning models?

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PRECEDE/PROCEED (oldest)

Logic Model (5 steps)

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PRECEDE/PROCEED

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Predisposing Reinforcing and Enabling factors and Causes in Educational Diagnosis and Evaluation

Policy, Regulatory, and Organizational Constructs in Education and Environmental Design

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Logic Model

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  1. Resources
  2. Activities
  3. Outputs
  4. Outcomes
  5. Impact
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How can you evaluate a program?

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Eval how activities were implemented as they were designed
Eval cost effectiveness
Eval is intervention and program theories were correct
Is the timeline appropriate
Should the program be duplicated or expanded to a new location

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What is the focus of primary care?

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To keep a person free of disease

47
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Who does primary care serve?

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Individuals, families, and communities

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What do PHNs do?

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Population assessment, assurance of a well-coordinated system, and policy development

49
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What is the Centralized level of the health department?`

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5 states use this method.

Operated by state health agency and the PHN functions under the state agency

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What is the Decentralized health department level?

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NO board of health, operated by the LOCAL government, 27 states use this method

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What is the Shared or Mixed system health agency?

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16 states use this

Operate under a shared authority of the State, Local, and Board of health

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What are PHDs responsible for?

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State: Distribute federal and state funds to local public health agencies to implement programs at the community level

Local: Responsibilities vary depending on the locality and are responsible for implementing and enforcing local, state, and federal public health programs to a community

Federal: Programs such as the FDA and CDC (disease control and surveillance, inspection and licensing).

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What are the components of the epidemiology triangle?

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Host (person)
Agent (organism that caused the disease)
Environment (weather, home, food)

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What is the difference between incidence and prevalence?

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Incidence = the number of new cases diagnosed in a given period of time divided by the total number at risk in the new population over that same time period and multiplied by a give multiplier
(new cases)/(population x timeframe)

Prevalence = the number of existing cases (numerator) divided by the total number of persons in the population (denominator) multiplying by a given multiplier (total # of cases/total pop)

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What are the types of surveillance?

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Passive: data collected based on individuals or institutions that report on health info either voluntarily or by mandate.

Active: deployment of public health professionals to identify cases of a disease or health condition under surveillance

Sentinel: reporting of health events by health professionals selected to represent a geographic area of specific reporting group

Syndromic: focuses on one or more sx rather than a physician-diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed disease

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When are outbreak investigations conducted?

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When a population experiences an unusual increase in a specific disease

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Routes of exposure

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Chemical
Biological
Physical

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What are the types of environmental risks?

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Medium: air, water, soil food

Type: chemical, biological, radiation

Setting: rural, urban, suburban

Functional location: home, school. work, community

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What are the steps in an environmental assessment?

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  1. Hazard identification
  2. Dose-response assessment: correlation between an increase in quantity of a substance and an increase in harmful effects
  3. Exposure assessment: consideration of the level, timing, and extent of the exposure
  4. Risk characterization
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What agency regulates human health and the environment?

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EPA (environmental protection agency)

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What is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

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Lists hazardous ingredients of a product and the effect on human health

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IPREPARE stands for:

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Investigate potential exposure
Present work
Residence
Environmental concerns
Past work
Activities 
Referrals and resources
Educate
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What are health disparities?

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Differences in health and healthcare between population groups
Disparities occur across many dimensions, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, location, gender, disability status, and sexual orientation

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What actions can help reduce health disparities?

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Increase cultural awareness
Initiate cultural assessment of population and individual
Promote cultural competence training
Increase diversity of health care staff
Make sure patients receive equitable health care services
Be an advocate
Always use an interpreter, as needed
Recognizes that nurses and other providers can be discriminatory

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Health Equity

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Highest level health for all
Fairness
Equal opportunities

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Health Inequity

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Giving everyone the same thing to promote health
Sameness
Does not consider differences and specificities

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Health in all policies (HiAP)

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Requires different sectors to work together to ensure that people have equal opportunities to achieve the highest level of health

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What is Medicare?

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Health insurance that covers three groups of people: Those aged 65 and older, people under 65 with certain disabilities, and those of any age with end stage renal disease

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What is Medicaid?

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Provides financial assistance to states and countries for low-income families with dependent children, low-income older adults, and disabled individuals

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Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)

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Federal and State partnership that provides coverage for children who live in families that earn incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid but too low to afford private health insurance. Focuses on children up to age 19, pregnant women, and other legal citizens

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Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

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Federal grant program that provides nutritional supplements to nutritionally at-risk, low-income, pregnant women until 6 weeks postpartum, breastfeeding mothers until the infant’s 1st birthday, and children up to the age of 5. WIC pays for essential items such as milk, eggs, baby formula, and currently serves 53% of infants born in the U.S.

It also provides education and counseling at WIC clinics and other screenings

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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Aka food stamps, SNAP is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the US Dept. of Agriculture. Provides financial assistance for the purchase of food to help recipients maintain a healthy diet; it is the largest program in the domestic hunger safety net. People eligible for TANF and SSI are automatically eligible for SNAP.

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Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF)

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A cash assistance program generally limited to 60 moths in an adult’s lifetime. Money for this program is a block grant from the federal government that allows flexibility to each state for developing its own program. The purpose is to make TANF temporary by supporting economically needy families. There are work requirements for adults and teen parents must live with their parents and remain in school.

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Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)

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A federal program that provides income benefits to individuals if the disabled person worked past 10 years (40 quarters) to pay social security tax, and is expected to be unable to work for at least 1 year.

Can be temporary or permanent. There is no income restriction.

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The Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

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A federal supplemental income program funded by general tax revenues. It covers adults and children who have a significant physical or mental disability that has lasted or is suspected to last more that 12 months. Recipients must have limited income level and resources or have not met the work requirements for SSDI. Recipient must remain below the income threshold

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Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT)

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Medicaid is jointly financed and administered by federal and state governments. States set their own guidelines for eligibility and services but must include certain federally mandated basic services such as: inpatient and outpatient hospital care, lab and radiology services,, skilled care at home or in a long-term care facility, early periodic screenings diagnosis and tx of those under 21 yo, and family planning services.

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Health Policy vs Public Health Policy

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Health policy = decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific health care goals within a society. An explicit health policy outlines priorities and the expected roles of diverse groups; it builds a consensus and informs people

Public Health Policy = principles and values that guide authoritative decisions made in government, agencies, or organizations intended to influence population health

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How can nurses be involved in advocacy and policy?

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Identifying, interpreting, and implementing public health laws, regulations, and policies

Educating the public on relevant laws, regulations, and policies

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Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Healthcare reform; Denial of coverage for preexisting conditions was prohibited; Young adults could stay on parent’s insurance until age 26

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Tenn Care:

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TN’s Medicaid program (for very low income individuals)

81
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Endemic vs pandemic

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Endemic = constant presence of disease within a geographic area or a population

Pandemic = Epidemic occurring worldwide and affecting large populations

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What is Salmonella?

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Bacteria that lives in the intestinal tract of animals (feces)
Causes n/v/d, abdominal pain, fever, chills, body aches, etc.

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What is E. coli?

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Bacteria from the feces of humans or animals

Causes vomiting, cramps, anorexia, and low fever

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Role of the PHN with immunizations

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Children should be vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and influenza

Educate parents that vaccines are not harmful (do not cause autism)

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Cycle of Transmission

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Agent —> Reservoir –> Portal of Exit –> Mode of Transmission –> Portal of Entry –> Susceptible Host

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Modes of Transmission

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Vertical: passing of the infection from parent to offspring via sperm, placenta, milk, or vaginal canal contact at birth

Horizontal: Person-to-person spread of infection through one or more of the following 4 routes: 1. direct/indirect 2. common vehicle 3. airborne 4. vectorborne

Common Vehicle: transportation of the infectious agent from an infected host to a susceptible host via food, water, milk, blood, serum, saliva, or plasma

Vectors: arthropods such as ticks and mosquitoes, or other invertebrates such as snails, that transmit the infectious agent by biting or depositing the infective material near the host.

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What puts people at risk for NCDs?

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Nutrition
Physical Activity
Tobacco
Alcohol

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What are the most common NCDs?

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Heart Disease
Cancer
Chronic Respiratory Disease
Diabetes

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US Preventive Services Taskforce Recs- What they are, how to use them; (USPSTF)

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Releases recommendations for preventive services based on rigorous review of the evidence.

How to use: Go to their website or ask a physician

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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Treatment

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Roles of the nurse = illness prevention and health promotion

Goals: Should be reasonable, manageable, set with the client

Interventions: should be culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate/focus is on teaching health promotion and disease prevention

Client Empowerment
Comprehensive Services
Resources
Case Management
Evaluation
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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Assessment

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Socioeconomic resources
Physical Health Issues
Psychological  - stress and coping
Lifestyle factors
Environmental Factors
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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Poverty

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The standard of living below which a family lacks the goods and services commonly taken for granted by mainstream society

Higher rates of chronic illness
Higher infant morbidity and mortality
Shorter life expectancy
More complex health problems
More significant complications and physical limitations with higher incomes
Hospitalization rates are 3x more than for persons with higher incomes

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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Effects of homelessness on healthcare

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Common health problems: upper respiratory disorders, TB, skin disorders, and infestations

Alcoholism, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, hypothermia and heat related illnesses, malnutrition.

Usually only use the ER, do not have access to affordable healthcare, almost all have chronic illnesses

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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Those at risk for homelessness

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Males, homeless families are increasing, 42% African American, 38% Caucasian, 20% Hispanic, 2% Asian, victims of domestic abuse, veterans, and LGBTQ youth

46% of homeless children are under age 6

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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Migrants

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Have substandard housing
Crowded living quarters
Poor nutrition
Exposure to pesticides
Lack of access to healthcare
No ACA

INA protects immigrants and migrants from discrimination

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Disaster Triage: what is it for?

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EMS, greatest good for the greatest number, mass casualty events

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Disaster Management Phases

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Preimpact
Impact
Postimpact
Preparedness
Response
Recovery
Mitigation
Evaluation
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Types of Disasters

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Natural
Epidemics
Man-made

99
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Anthrax

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Ciprofloxacin for tx
Cutaneous: most common form and is considered least dangerous
Inhalation: considered to be the most deadly form, infection usually develops within a week of exposure
Gastro: has rarely been reported in the US, usually develops 1-7 days after exposure
Injection: Never been reported in the US

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How to best assess and care for vulnerable populations: Smallpox

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If released, susceptibility is 100% in the unvaccinated and the fatality rate is 20% or higher

WHO does not recommend public vaccination because risk of death or side effects is greater than that of the disease.

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How is Smallpox spread?

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Direct or prolonged face to face contact is required
Patients become contagious once sores appear in mouth and throat
Lesions develop synchronously
Scabs and fluid contain variola virus
Can be spread through bedding and clothes
CONTACT precautions
Can be spread only by humans

There is no cure
Supportive care only.

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