1. Public health nurses (PHNs) know they must approach a public health issue with an understanding of the
related underlying risk factors to develop
... [Show More] effective nursing interventions. They evaluate these risk factors
from two perspectives:
1. Disease; individual
2. Intervention; government
3. Epidemic; population
4. Individual; population
2. A nursing student is studying public health. She learns that, according to C.E.A. Winslow’s definition, some
of the goals of public health include disease prevention, promoting health, control of communicable
infections, and .
1. Risk assessment for disease
2. Promotion of primary care
3. Organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive
treatment of disease
4. Governmental safety regulations
3. If the international medical community was working to contain several worldwide pandemics, they would
look to the World Health Organization (WHO), which is:
1. The public health arm of the United Nations.
2. Working to improve health and well-being for the global population.
3. Working with nurses to promote public health interventions.
4. All of the above.
4. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), now known as the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, stated in their report, The Future of the Public’s Health,
that there are three core functions that society carries out to collectively support the optimum conditions for
public health. Which one of the following is not one of these functions?
1. Prevention
2. Assessment
3. Policy development
4. Assurance
5. With aging, there is an increased prevalence of both noncommunicable (chronic) and communicable disease
(NCD). The most pressing issue from a public health perspective based on this increase is:
1. An increased demand for long-term care
2. An increased need for further research
3. Further exploration of the developmental stages related to aging
4. Decreased cost of medications.
6. A PHN would like to use the Dahlgren-Whitehead model to help herself and other local practitioners
understand health in populations. She understands that the Dahlgren-Whitehead ecological model assumes
that:
1. There are multiple determinants of health, and thus multiple strategies are needed.
2. A population and environmental approach is essential.
3. Linkages and relationships are crucial. [Show Less]