w1 Flashcards
Red
Surveillance
Disease and other health event investigation
Outreach
Screening
Green
Referral and Follow up
Case managment
Delegated functions
Blue
Health Teaching
counseling
consultation
Orange
collaboration
coalition building
community organization
yellow
advocacy
social marketing
policy development
policy enforcement
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. (BP screenings)
Surveillance
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.
Disease and other health event investigation
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.
Outreach
Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or asymptomatic disease conditions in populations.
Screening
Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or communities to identify and access necessary resources in to prevent or resolve problems or concerns.
Referral and follow-up
Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide services.
case managment
Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional nurse entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform.
Delegated functions
Communicates facts, ideas and skills that change knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families, systems, and/or communities.
Health teaching
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.
counseling
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.
Consultation
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.
collaboration
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
coalition building
Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals, mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for reaching the goals they collectively have set.
community organizing
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.
advocacy
Utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population-of-interest.
social marketing
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.
Policy Development
Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and policies created in conjunction with policy development.
Policy enforcement
