Exam 2 Flashcards

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Influencing others (politics) to adopt a specific course of action (policy) to solve a societal problem

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Advocacy

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Policies that are specifically intended to direct or influence actions, behaviors, or decisions that influence the health of population

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Public health policy

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3
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Provides payment for hospital care; long term care; and pharmaceutical, physician, and other services to individuals 65 and older, and specified groups of people with disabilities under 65 including individuals with end stage renal disease

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Medicare

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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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Medicaid

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5
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Provide direct health services to certain individuals and groups (ex: military, certain veterans, and federal prisoners)

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Direct services

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Pay for some health care services for training some health care personnel for biomedical and health care research (ex: Medicare, Medicaid, Nursing Education Grants, National Institute of Nursing Research)

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Financing

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7
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Collect, analyze, and disseminate data about health care and health status of citizens (ex: annual report)

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Information

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Provides supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age 5 who are found to be at nutritional risk

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WIC

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Routine checkups, immunizations, doctor visits, prescriptions, dental and vision care, inpatient and outpatient hospital care, lab and x-ray services, emergency services

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SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program)

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10
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Responsibilities vary depending on the locality and are responsible for implementing and enforcing local, state, and federal public health codes and ordinances and providing essential public health programs to a community. Goal is to safeguard the public’s health to improve the community’s health status

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Local health department

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Responsible for monitoring health status and enforcing laws and regulations that protect and improve the public’s health. Distribute federal and state funds to local public health agencies to implement programs at the community level

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State health department

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Develop regulations that implement policies formulated by Congress and provide a significant amount of funding to state and territorial health agencies to:
Provide public health services
Survey the nation’s health status and health needs
Set practice and standards
Provide expertise that facilitates evidence based practices
Coordinate public health activities that cross state lines
Support health services research

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Federal health department

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13
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Advocate, legislation, case manager, referral source
Assessment of literacy, educator, direct primary caregivers
Ensuring direct care services are available for at risk populations
Disaster management, communicable disease control
Levels of prevention

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Public health nurses

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14
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Operated by state health agency or state board of health
PH functions under this agency
Five states use this method

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Centralized public health department

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15
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Operated by local government
No board of health
27 states use this method

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Decentralized public health department

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16
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Operated under the shared authority of:
State health agency
Board of health
Local government
16 states use this system

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Shared or mixed system

17
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Fairness, making sure people get access to the same opportunities

18
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Sameness, promotes fairness and justice by giving everyone the same thing

19
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Attainment of the highest level of health for all people
Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities

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Health equity

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Lack of access to health care

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Health disparities

21
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Strengthen economic supports to the families, change social norms to support parents and positive parenting, provide quality care and education early in life, etc

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Reduce ACEs

22
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Outcomes that improve population health, wellbeing, and equity by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Where good health flourishes across geographic, demographic, and social sectors; where being healthy and staying health is an esteemed social values; and everyone has access to affordable, quality health care

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Culture of health

23
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Investigate potential exposures
Present work
Residence
Environmental concerns
Past work
Activities
Referrals and resources
Educate

24
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A systematic process to identify environmental health risks and create a practical action plan to address key environmental health issues within a target population

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Environmental health assessment

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Outlines the health risks associated with exposure to environmental contaminants at a site and provides the justification for taking action to remediate or remove the contamination
Environmental risk assessment
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Shift to e-records to avoid paper, recycle, promote minimal packaging, and green wrappers Go fragrance free, turn off equipment not used, report dysfunctional plumbing Promote local sustainable foods (organic), start a green team, education Create community
How to reduce environmental health risks
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Regulatory body Performs environmental assessments, performs research, educates Sets and enforces national environmental standards
Environment protection agency
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Fair distributions of environmental burdens. Fair application of environmental laws, policies, and regulations regardless of race, color, national origin, or income
Environmental justice
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Working at individual, community, institutional, and governmental level to ensure energy conserving policies and practices
Mitigation
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Public health nurses must be prepared for increased fire and storm related disasters
Response
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Motor vehicle crashes, drowning, burns, falls
Unintentional injuries
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Suicide, homicide
Intentional injuries
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Behavioral factors, environmental factors, socioeconomic factors
Risk factors for injuries
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Suicide, cutting/self mutilation
Self inflicted violence
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Family, community, acquaintance, stranger
Interpersonal violence
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Groups engage in types of violence Nations, communities, gangs
Collective violence
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Teach safe and health relationship skills Engage influential adults and peers Disrupt the developmental pathways toward partner violence Create protective environments Strengthen economic supports for families Support survivors to increase safety and lessen harm
Child abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV)