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PH WK 1 Flashcards

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What is public health

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The promotion of health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.
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Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, communities, and individuals.

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what is the mission of public health

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social justice, which entitles all people to basic necessities such as adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to make it possible

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focus of public health

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on populations/communities or groups within populations/communities (sub-populations

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Goal of public health

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promote health and prevent disease of populations

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outcome of public health

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healthy communities and populations.

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3 core Functions of public health

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Assessment
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Policy Development
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Assurance

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2 essential services of Assessment

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Monitor Health
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Diagnose & Investigate

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3 essential services of Policy Development

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inform, educate, empower
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mobilize community partnerships
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Develop Policies

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4 Essential services of Assurance

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Enforce Laws
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Link to; provide care
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Assure Competent Workforce
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Evaluate

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What is public health nursing

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practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations
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Uses knowledge from nursing, as well as social and public health sciences, to promote and protect the health of populations.

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Upstream thinking focuses on…

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modifying economic, political, and environmental factors to support better health outcomes “downstream.”

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levels of prevention in public health nursing

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Primary = prevention of problems before they occur

Secondary = early detection and intervention

Tertiary = focuses on supporting self-care management and environmental systems that support self-care management to enhance quality of life

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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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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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Screening

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

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Case management

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

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Referral and follow-up

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

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Health teaching

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

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Counseling

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Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system, family or individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping. Counseling engages the community, a system, family or individual at an emotional level.

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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 circumstances

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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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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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Community organizing

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

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Advocacy

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

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Social marketing

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Utilizes 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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Policy development

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

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Policy enforcement

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

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Community

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A group of individuals who interact as social units, sharing common characteristics, interests, values, and/or geographic locale.

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Types of Communities

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Face to Face community or virtual community

Community based on political jurisdictions or physical boundaries

Neighborhood, city, state, national, or international community

Community of identifiable need or of special interest

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Community assessment provides opportunities to

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begin to know the community

initiate partnerships and develop collaborations with community members

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community assessment provides the basis for

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Identifying risk factors in the community and at-risk populations

Identifying community needs AND community strengths

Identifying resources in community

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6 Primary Sources of Data

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Personal observation

Personal interactions with community members

Attending community meetings

Windshield surveys

Needs assessment surveys (population surveys, focus groups)

Key informant interviews

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6 Secondary Data Sources

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Vital statistics

Epidemiological data

Census data

Hospital data

Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

Literature reviews

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12 steps to community needs assessment

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Identify aggregate for assessment

Engage the community in planning the assessment

Identify required information

Select method of data gathering

Develop questionnaires or interview questions

Develop procedures for data collection

Train data collectors

Conduct a pilot with a sample representative of the aggregate

Conduct needs assessment

Tabulate and analyze data

Identify needs suggested by data

Develop an action plan

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What are the SMART Objectives

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Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Realistic

Time-phased

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Blooms taxonomy from bottom to top

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Remember = recognizing and recalling facts

Understand = understanding what the facts mean

Apply = applying the facts, rules, concepts, and ideas

Analyze = breaking down information into component parts

Evaluate = judging the value of information or ideas

Create = combining parts to make a new whole

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formative evaluation is intended to

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Evaluate the process of implementing the program/intervention

Determine if program is operating per planned.

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Process Evaluation is a type of

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formative evaluation

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Outcome Evaluation focuses on

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observable conditions or behaviors that the program was expected to affect most directly and immediately

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Impact evaluation examines

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long-term outcomes - observable conditions or behaviors the program was expected to affect long-term based on the program goals.

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Examples of evaluation sources:

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Interviews

Observations

Quantitative measures (blood pressures, BMI)

Qualitative measures (satisfaction and post-test surveys)

Program completion data

Morbidity and mortality data

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what is health education

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any combination of learning experiences designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health in individuals, groups or communities

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3 learning domains

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Cognitive

Affective

Psychomotor

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cognitive domain

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Knowledge = memory, recognition, understanding, reasoning, application, problem solving

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Affective Domain

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attitudes = changes in attitudes and values; motivation

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Psychomotor Domain

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skills = skill performance, demonstration, hands-on

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Goal of health education

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translate knowledge into relevant interventions and strategies for health enhancement, disease prevention, and chronic illness management

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outcomes of health education

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enhanced quality of care

reduce cost of care

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role of nurses in health education

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Become a partner with the client; collaborate

Offer appropriate health information and educational interventions

Appropriate for culture, literacy, beliefs, etc.

Promote self-care, self-efficacy, and self-advocacy (empowerment)

Serve as catalyst for change

Activate ideas

Negotiate with client or mediate between client and “other”

Identify, link to, and facilitate navigation of resources

Serve as counselor, consultant, case manager as necessary

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preplanning in health education

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Establish a relationship with clients

Assess what clients want to learn and what they think is important

Assess where clients are baseline

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planning and strategy actions

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Review the available data.

Get community partners involved.

Obtain new data.

Determine perceptions of health problems.

Determine the community’s assets and strengths.

Identify underlying issues and knowledge gaps.

Establish goals and objectives.

Assess resources.

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Stages for frame work form developing health communications

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1 - planning and strategy development
2- developing and pretesting concepts, messages, and materials
3- implementing the program
4- assessing effectiveness and making refinements

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stage 2 - developing and pretesting concepts, messages, and materials= actions to take

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Identify the messages and materials.

Decide whether to use existing materials or produce new ones.

Select communication channels and formats.

Develop relevant materials with the target audience.

Pretest the message and materials and obtain audience feedback.

select program format

select program setting

determine how program will be launched

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stage 3- implementing the program- actions to take

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Work with community organizations to enhance effectiveness.

Monitor and track progress.

Establish process evaluation measures.

Evaluate participant experience

Evaluate participant learning

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Stage 4 - assessing effectiveness and making refinements - actions to take

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Conduct outcome evaluations.

Reassess and revise goals and objectives.

Modify unsuccessful strategies or activities.

Generate continual support from community groups.

Provide justification for continuing/ending the program.

Summarize in an evaluation report.

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