Exam 1 Review

Question 1

The capacity for a client to locate, understand, and apply healthcare information.

Answer 1

Health Literacy

Question 2

Offer healthy cooking classes for families in the community.

Answer 2

Primary Prevention

Question 3

Refers to a larger group whose members have a shared characteristic (such as age, gender, ethnicity, shared health issues, etc.)

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Population

Question 4

Understanding that self-awareness about one’s own culture is an ongoing process. Respect and understand others’ beliefs & cultural norms.

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Cultural Humility

Question 5

This means valuing everyone equally to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and social determinants of health.

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Health Equity

Question 6

An annual vision screening for a diabetic patient.

Answer 6

Secondary Prevention

Question 7

Refers to a group of individuals living within the same geographical area.

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Community

Question 8

The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.

Answer 8

Social Determinants of Health

Question 9

Differences in health and healthcare between populations.

Answer 9

Health Disparity

Question 10

Develop a portable immunization chart, such as a wallet card, that mobile population groups such as the homeless and migrant workers can carry with them.

Answer 10

Primary Prevention

Question 11

The term for when individual units are brought together into a whole or a sum of those individuals.

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Aggregate

Question 12

Reflects the total number of cases of a disease in a population. The number of total cases of diseases / the total number of people in a population.

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Prevalence

Question 13

Avoidable gaps in health outcomes.

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Health Inequity

Question 14

Develop community-based exercise programs for people identified as having increase blood pressure or increased blood sugar.

Answer 14

Tertiary Prevention

Question 15

Reflects the fact that groups and individuals are not all the same but differ in relation to culture, ethnicity, and race.

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Diversity

Question 16

A person who is unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on basis of race, religion, nationality, social group membership, or political opinion.

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Asylee

Question 17

Includes a range of personal, social, economic, and evironmental factors.

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Determinants of Health

Question 18

Develop individualized weight loss plans and counseling for individuals identified as obese on lifestyle changes is an example of:

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Tertiary Prevention

Question 19

Customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.

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Culture

Question 20

A way of depicting the total number of cases of the disease in the population that takes into account issues related to duration of the disease and the incidence of disease.

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Prevalence Pot

Question 21

True or False: Older adults are more vulnerable to acquiring a communicable disease and at higher risk for morbidity and mortality from it.

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True

Question 22

Total number of individuals who have a disease or health condition at a specific period of time. Total number of cases / Total Population.

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Prevalence

Question 23

A person, already residing in the US; a refugee who fled their home country due to a well-founded fear of persecution.

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Asylee

Question 24

This vulnerable population has increased incidence of TB, poor nutrition, and often live in poor substandard housing.

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Migrant Workers

Question 25

Examples include teaching good nutrition, providing information on immunizations, providing information on health hazards, and use of PPE.

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Primary Prevention

Question 26

Vaccines recommended for adults over 65.

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Pneumonia Influenza COVID Shingles Tdap

Question 27

Levels in the Public Health Intervention Wheel.

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Individual Level Community Level Systems Level

Question 28

This type of homelessness includes everyone who is living without adequate shelter.

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Primary Homelessness

Question 29

This vulnerable population is at higher risk of substance use disorders, mental health issues, and communicable diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.

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Incarcerated

Question 30

This is the restoration of health through rehabilitation strategies, including connecting clients with community resources after an injury.

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Tertiary

Question 31

The most common form of unintentional injury and one of the leading causes of injury and death in the older adult.

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Falls

Question 32

This term describes avoidable gaps in health outcomes.

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Health Inequity

Question 33

This type of homelessness includes those staying in a temporary form of housing (living with friends/family, or in a shelter).

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Secondary Homelessness

Question 34

This vulnerable population is at increased risk for communicable diseases, suicide, mental health issues, and substance use disorders.

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LGBTQ+

Question 35

This public health prevention strategy is focused on changing individual behaviors (promoting exercise, smoking cessation, etc.)

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Behavioral Prevention

Question 36

Emerging communicable diseases in adults over 50.

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HIV STIs Hepatitis C

Question 37

Social Determinants of Health

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Income Education Access to Care Neighborhood & Environment Social/Community Context

Question 38

Vulnerable Populations

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Incarcerated Immigrants Migrants Asylees Homeless LGBTQ+

Question 39

This public health prevention strategy focuses on improving the safety of the environment (laws against drunk driving, clean air acts, etc.)

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Environmental Prevention

Question 40

Main reasons the elderly are at increased vulnerability to communicable diseases.

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Decreased Immunity Existence of Co-morbid Illness Undernutrition

Question 41

This is a composite measure of the interrelated concepts of income, education, and occupation.

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Socioeconomic Status

Question 42

This approach aims to prevent problems from happening in the first place (looking at larger community-based interventions such as removing fried food, adding affordable healthy options in the neighborhood).

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Upstream Thinking

Question 43

A health plan developed to eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy.

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Healthy People 2030

Question 44

This public health prevention strategy uses a one-one delivery method between healthcare provider and patient or family.

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Clinical Prevention