Quiz 2: Chapter 9

Question 1

Advocacy

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Case Finding

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Case Management

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Coalition Building

Answer 4

Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or constituencies for a common purpose.

Question 5

Collaboration

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Community

Answer 6

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 .

Question 7

Community Level Practice

Answer 7

Changes community norms, community attitudes, community awareness, community practices, and community behaviors.

Question 8

Community Organizing

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Counseling

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Consultation

Answer 10

Seeks information and generates optimal solutions to perceived problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a community, system, family, or individual.

Question 11

Delegated Functions

Answer 11

Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law.

Question 12

Determinants of Health

Answer 12

Factors that influence health status across the life cycle.

Question 13

Disease and Other Health Event Investigation

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Health Teaching

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Individual Level Practice

Answer 15

Changes knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, practices, and behaviors or individuals.

Question 16

Intermediate Goals

Answer 16

Are meaningful, measureable, and achievable.

Question 17

Intercentions

Answer 17

Actions taken on behalf of communities, systems, individuals, and families, to improve or protect health status.

Question 18

Levels of Practice

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Outcome Health Status Indicators

Answer 19

Measures the impact of the interventions on population health.

Question 20

Outreach

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Policy Development

Answer 21

Places health issues on decision makers’ agendas, acquires a plan of resolution, and determines needed sources.

Question 22

Policy Enforcement

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Population

Answer 23

A collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common.

Question 24

Population at Risk

Answer 24

A population with a common identified risk factor or risk exposure that poses a threat to health.

Question 25

Population of Interest

Answer 25

A population that is essentially healthy but that could improve factors that promote or protect health.

Question 26

Prevention

Answer 26

Anticipatory action taken to prevent the occurrence of an event or to minimize its effect after it has occurred.

Question 27

Primary Prevention

Answer 27

Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention. Every event has a preventable component.

Question 28

Public Health Nursing

Answer 28

To promote health and prevent disease for entire population groups.

Question 29

Referral and Follow Up

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Screening

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Secondary prevention

Answer 31

Detects and treats problems in their early stages.

Question 32

Social Marketing

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Surveillance

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Systems Level Practice

Answer 34

Changes organization’s, policies, laws, and power structures within communities.

Question 35

Tertiary Prevention

Answer 35

Prevention is customarily described as a continuum moving from primary to tertiary prevention.

Question 36

Wedges

Answer 36

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.