Quiz 2: Chapter 9 Flashcards
Advocacy
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.
Case Finding
Locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and connects them with resources.
Case Management
Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide services.
Coalition Building
Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common purpose.
Collaboration
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.
Community
A group of people who share common culture, values and/or interests, based on social identity and/or territory, and who have some means of recognizing, and (inter)acting upon, these commonalities .
Community Level Practice
Changes community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community practices, and community behaviors.
Community Organizing
Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
Counseling
Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, system, family, or individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity for self-care and coping.
Consultation
Seeks information and generates optimal solutions to perceived problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family, or individual.
Delegated Functions
Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law.
Determinants of Health
Factors that influence health status across the life cycle.
Disease and Other Health Event Investigation
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.
Health Teaching
Communicates facts, ideas, and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
Individual Level Practice
Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors or individuals.
Intermediate Goals
Are meaningful, measureable, and achievable.
Intercentions
Actions taken on behalf of communities, systems, individuals, and families, to improve or protect health status.
Levels of Practice
3 levels: (1) with individuals, either singly or in groups, and with families; (2) with communities as a whole; (3) with systems that impact the health of the communities. A wheel-shaped graphic was developed to illustrate the set of interventions and the levels of practice.
Outcome Health Status Indicators
Measures the impact of the interventions on population health.
Outreach
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.
Policy Development
Places health issues on decision makers’ agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, and determines needed sources.
Policy Enforcement
Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, and policies created in conjunction with policy development.
Population
A collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common.
Population at Risk
A population with a common identified risk factor or risk exposure that poses a threat to health.
Population of Interest
A population that is essentially healthy but that could improve factors that promote or protect health.
Prevention
Anticipatory action taken to prevent the occurrence of an event or to minimize its effect after it has occurred.
Primary Prevention
Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention. Every event has a preventable component.
Public Health Nursing
To promote health and prevent disease for entire population groups.
Referral and Follow Up
Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities to identify and access necessary resources in order to prevent or resolve problems or concerns.
Screening
Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations.
Secondary prevention
Detects and treats problems in their early stages.
Social Marketing
Uses commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population interest.
Surveillance
Describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluation public health interventions, and disseminating this data to those who need to know to prevent and control outbreaks.
Systems Level Practice
Changes organization’s, policies, laws, and power structures within communities.
Tertiary Prevention
Prevention is customarily described as a continuum moving from primary to tertiary prevention.
Wedges
The Intervention Wheel has wedges that are made up of interventions. The wedges on the Intervention Wheel are color coordinated to make them more recognizable.
