NFDN 2006 Final Exam And Answers All Correct
What is community? - Answer-- Defined as a specific population of people, or a place where people live and work.
/.What principles make up the Canada Health Act? - Answer-- Universality, Accessibility, Comprehensiveness of services, Portability,...
What is community? - Answer-- Defined as a specific population of people, or a place
where people live and work.
/.What principles make up the Canada Health Act? - Answer-- Universality,
Accessibility, Comprehensiveness of services, Portability, and Public Administration
/.What is the Lalonde Report (1974)? - Answer-- It initiated health promotion movement
in Canada.
- This was the first development of the determinants of health.
/.What is the Alma Ata Declaration? - Answer-- Declaration for primary health care,
promoting the health of all.
- First time primary care and addressing social determinants was identified as the key to
achieving widespread health.
- Addressed the need for health promotion approach within primary care.
/.What did the Epp report identify? - Answer-- Reducing inequities, increasing
prevention, and enhancing coping skills as specific challenges to achieving health;
these challenges are also recognized as the determinants of health.
/.What is community health nursing? - Answer-- Promotes and protects the health of
individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.
- Involves coordinating care and planning services, programs, and policies by
collaborating with individuals, caregivers, families, other disciplines, communities and
governments.
/.Community Health Nursing... - Answer-- Works IN the community; focus on health
promotion and disease prevention, provides health care to individuals and families, and
uses community as a resource.
- Works WITH community as a client; focus is the health of the community, community
development, and community itself is the client.
/.What is a population? - Answer-- A collection of people who share one or more
personal or environmental characteristics.
/.What is an aggregate? - Answer-- Subpopulation, groups within a population.
/.What are the health status indicators? - Answer-- Well being, life expectancy,
incidence and prevalence rate, mortality rate, burden of illness
/.How do we determine the health of a population? - Answer-- Using measurements of
health: the determinants of health and health status indicators.
, /.What is primary disease prevention? - Answer-- Seeks to prevent disease from the
beginning (e.g. education)
/.What is secondary disease prevention? - Answer-- Seeks to detect disease early in its
progression in order to make early diagnosis and begin treatment. (e.g. screening,
mammogram)
/.What is tertiary disease prevention? - Answer-- Begins once disease has become
obvious; aims to interrupt the course of the disease. (e.g. diabetes care, taking care of
symptoms)
/.What is downstream thinking? - Answer-- Taking a microscopic look at individual
health concerns and treatments, but does not consider sociopolitical, economic, and
environmental variables.
- Looking only at the individual
- E.g. acute care nurses, stabilize, treatment
/.What is upstream thinking? - Answer-- Taking a macroscopic look, population health
approach
- Primary prevention perspective
- Considers determinants of health and other economic, political and environmental
factors
- e.g. community health nurses, proper nutrition, how could this be prevented?
/.What are the 6 basic principles for collaboration? - Answer-- Client focus, population
health approach, quality care and services, access, trust/respect, communication
/.What is Health Canada? - Answer-- Federal department responsible for helping
Canadians maintain and improve their healt.
- Safegaurds the population health by surveillance, prevention, legislation, and research
/.What are the determinants of health? - Answer-- Factors that influence an individual's
or population's health
- Income and social justice, social support network, education, employment, physical
and social environments, healthy childhood development, culture, gender, health
services
/.What are the social determinants of health? - Answer-- The economic and social
conditions that shape the health of individuals, communities and jurisdiction as a whole.
/.What are the 5 principles of primary health care? - Answer-1. Equitable distribution
2. appropriate technology
3. a focus on health promotion and disease prevention.
4. community participation
5. a multisectoral approach
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