Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide Question and answers correctly solved 2024
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Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide Question and answers correctly solved 2024 Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide
What is the definition of community and what are the critical attributes? - correct answer "A group of people ...
often living in a defined geographical area,
who may share a ...
Community Health Unit 2 Study Guide
What is the definition of community and what are the critical attributes? -
correct answer ✔"A group of people ...
often living in a defined geographical area,
who may share a common culture, values and norms, and
are arranged in a social structure according to relationships which the
community has developed over a period of time.
People (community members), place (Geographic and time), and function
(aims and activities) are the critical attributes.
Define: Aggregate, Community, Family, and Group - correct answer
✔Aggregate: Collection of individuals who have one or more personal or
environmental characteristic in common.
Community: Group of people that share something in common, such as
geographic location, interests, values.
Group: People who are located close together. Family: is considered parents
or children living together in a household
What is distributive justice and give an example - correct answer
✔Distributive justice means treating people fairly, and distributing resources
and burdens equally among members of a society
What is utilitarianism and give an example - correct answer ✔Utilitarianism
means doing the greatest good for the greatest number - A practice centered
around the principle of doing the greatest good for the greatest number.
What are the concepts of social justice and health disparities? How are they
different? - correct answer ✔Social Justice means ensuring that vulnerable
,groups are included in the equitable distribution of resources. Health
disparities are the inequalities that exist among different people.
What are the main characteristics of a community partnership? - correct
answer ✔Awareness, flexibility, and negotiated distribution of power
What is the difference between primary and secondary data collection in the
community; give an example of each. - correct answer ✔Primary data
collection: using informant interviews, focus groups, and participant
observation in order to collect information about a community. EX:
interviewing a school nurse to determine their role in the school
Secondary data collection: Published data about the community such as:
census data or minutes from a community meeting. The data is secondary
because it is collected by someone else.
Describe the CDC's Healthy Communities Program. - correct answer ✔The
goal of the CDC's Healthy communities program is the promotion of health
through community engagement and collaboration. This leads to addressing
the health and quality of life for all through a process that includes diverse
citizen participation, mobilization of all sections of the community, and
community ownership.
What factors are critical to the CDCs healthy communities
program in the community? - correct answer ✔Healthy cities and
communities must be both environmentally and socially sustainable through a
strategy of primary care. healthy public policy should involve collaboration at
all levels. Supportive environments should be created. Community
participation will ensure the program can be sustained. Healthy cities is based
on the premise that when people have the opportunity to work out their own
locally defined health problems, they will find sustainable solutions to those
problems.
, The role of the Public health nurse (PHN) in working with families and
communities is reflected in what kind of nursing action? - correct answer
✔*Maybe the answer?*
Families: surveillance, disease and health event investigation, outreach,
screening, referral and follow-up, case management, delegated functions,
health teaching, counseling, and consultation.
Communities: Collaboration, community organizations building, advocacy,
social marketing, policy development and enforcement.
What is the healthy cities movement and what principles were used in its
creation? - correct answer ✔Started in Europe in 1986. Focuses on
mobilizing local resources and political, professional, and community
members to improve the health of the community.
Based on the premise that when people have the opportunity to work out their
own locally defined health problems, they will find sustainable solutions to
those problems.
The principles of primary health care and health promotion guide the healthy
communities movement
What are the PHN assumptions? What do we mean in public health by
populations? - correct answer ✔1) defining PHN Practice: promoting and
protecting the health of populations using nursing, social, and public health
sciences. Includes education in both public health and nursing. Primary focus:
health and disease prevention for entire population
2) PHN practice focuses on populations (at risk or of interest)
3) PHN practice considers the determinants of health
4) Priorities identified through community assessment
5) Emphasis on prevention
6) PHNs intervene at all levels of practice (community, systems, and
individual)
7) PHN practice uses the nursing process (ADPIE) at all levels of practice
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