Define Public Health - ✔✔ what we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy (IOM)
Define Population -
... [Show More] ✔✔ a collection of individuals who have one or more personal or environmental characteristics in common
Define Population based care (population focused practice) - ✔✔ emphasizes on the promotion of health, prevention of disease/disability, and the creation of conditions in which people can be healthy
Population centered practice seeks - ✔✔ healthful change for the whole community's benefit
Define Health - ✔✔ a state of physical, mental and social well being and the ability to function and not merely the absence of illness and infirmity (Terris pg 379)
Define Health Risk - ✔✔ factors that determine or influence whether disease or other unhealthy results occur (pg 628)
The Goals of Community Health are - ✔✔ 1) care of ill, disabled, injured, in non horpital setting
2) Support well being and development through life cycle
3)promotion of human relatedness and mutual caring
4)Promotion of self responsibility about well being
5)promotion of relative safety in environment
Principles of Healthy People 2020 are - ✔✔
Four main goals of Healthy People 2020 are
Elephants Ate Eagles Cruelly - ✔✔ 1) elimination of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death
2) achievement of health equity
3) elimination of health disparities
4) Creation of social and physical environments that will promote good health and healthy development and behavior at every stage of life
Identify factors affecting health outcomes - ✔✔
Determinants of health are - ✔✔ factors that influence health status throughout the life cycle
The determinants of health are - ✔✔ income, education, employment, social support, biology/genetics,, physical environment, housing, transportation, and personal health practices
Determinants of health - ✔✔ factors, exposures, characteristics, behaviors, and contexts that determine/influence the patterns. They can be individual, relational/social, communal, or environmental.
Ethical principles - ✔✔
The goal of community assessment is to
Elephants Prance Carefully, Practicing Excellent Form - ✔✔ 1) Establish a baseline of information
2) Prepare an inventory of a community's available resources
3) Create a deeper understanding of how existing services do and do not meet the need of individuals and their families
4) Providing a comprehensive picture
5) Enhance an understanding of cultural groups in the community
6) Forge a consensus about the community's needs
The five purposes of community assessment are - ✔✔ needs identification, problem clarification, desire analysis, resource identification, & resource utilization
When the "community is the client" the nursing focus is - ✔✔ on the collective or common good of the population
Identify various approaches to community assessment - ✔✔
Difference between concrete boundaries and conceptual boundaries - ✔✔ Concrete boundaries are geographical, political and situational
Conceptual boundaries are social ties, social interactions, service area, interest area and problem solving
The different methods to obtain data for a community assessment are - ✔✔ observation, environment description, survey, interviews, community forums, census tract data, resource analysis, epidemiological data analysis, & demographic data analysis
Five methods of collecting data are - ✔✔ interviews, participant observation, secondary analysis of existing data, surveys, and windshield surveys
The difference between health education and health promotion is - ✔✔ Health education involves giving information/teaching to individuals/communities on how to achieve better health.
Health promotion is increasing well being and actualize human health potential
The goal of education is to - ✔✔ motivate people to accept the process of behavioral change through directly influencing their values, beliefs and attitudinal systems
The overall goal for community is to - ✔✔ help others empower themselves to take responsibility, feel secure, deal with feelings and others, be flexible, problem solving, and move toward optimal levels of health
Learning is the - ✔✔ application of knowledge and the change that follows
The 3 domains of learning are - ✔✔ Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor [Show Less]