Week 3 - Important concepts

Question 1

What is the CCHNSOP second standard?

Answer 1

Prevention and health protection

Question 2

Aim to reduce negative consequences from risk exposure.

Answer 2

harm reduction principles

Question 3

Promotes participation with decision making about the health of the community.

Answer 3

Capacity building

Question 4

The purpose of which is to determine family roles, communication, division of labour, decision making, power structure, boundaries, styles of problem solving, coping abilites and health promotion practices.

Answer 4

family health assessment

Question 5

What is essential that a CHN have to complete a family health asssessment?

Answer 5

exceptional interviewing skills, sensitivity and flexibility

Question 6

A family health assessment begins from who’s perspective?

Answer 6

The perspective of the family

Question 7

In family health assessment, who is assessed first? NExt?

Answer 7

each individual member, then the whole family’s health

Question 8

What are two models of family health assessment?

Answer 8

Friedman family assessment model

McGill model

Question 9

What is the assumption of the Friedman family assessment model

Answer 9

Family is a social system with functional requirements

Question 10

What are the family structure factors that are evaluated by the Friedman family assessment model?

Answer 10

Communication patterns, role structure, values, power structure

Question 11

What is the focus of the McGill model?

How does it view family?

Answer 11

Focus on health rather than illness

Views family as a subsystem

Question 12

What are the steps comprised in community health assessment?

Answer 12

Assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation

or assessment, analysis, planning, intervention, evaluation

Question 13

Looking at resources that are already present

Answer 13

priority setting

Question 14

What are the two entry ways necessary to gain entry?

Answer 14

Physical entry - gatekeeper

Psychological entry

Question 15

Someone with formal and informal influence within the community

Answer 15

gatekeeper (physical entry)

Question 16

Practice mutuality, establish trust, credibility and do research before entering the community to achieve this entry.

Answer 16

Psychological entry

Question 17

What are different qualitative data sources?

Answer 17

Community surveys
Community forums
focus groups

Question 18

a series of questions addressing the issues or populations being studied; provides a snapshot of a community and may be generalized to a larger population

Answer 18

community surveys

Question 19

public meetings to discuss issues of concern with leaders or decision makers; inexpensive

Answer 19

community forums

Question 20

: small group interviews with 8-12 people that usually last 1-2 hours; participants are more homogeneous/may be aggregates

Answer 20

focus groups

Question 21

used when questions cannot be answered by secondary data sources; used in order to gain a more comprehensive view of a particular issue

Answer 21

Primary data sources

Question 22

census, vital statistics, health indicators, treatment statistics, registries, reports are examples

Answer 22

Secondary data soruces

Question 23

What source type does a CHN start with?

Answer 23

Secondary

Question 24

diverse group of people/aggregates that reside within community boundaries

Answer 24

population

Question 25

refers to two or more people

Answer 25

group

Question 26

group of people with common interests, demographics, SES, cultural heritage, etc.

Answer 26

aggregate

Question 27

These two terms are often used interchangeably.

Answer 27

Population and aggregate

Question 28

population for whom nursing interventions are intended

Answer 28

target population

Question 29

group of individuals who have an elevated likelihood of developing illness; disadvantaged, vulnerable to health inequalities, premature death, injury or disease

Answer 29

populations at risk / vulnerable populations

Question 30

where the target population lives, works, plays and learns

Answer 30

boundary

Question 31

What are the types of boundaries?

Answer 31

Physical boundaries
Artificial boundaries
- Political boundaries
- Situational boundaries

Question 32

geographic boundaries such as mountains, valleys, oceans, rivers, roads or mountains

Answer 32

Physical boundaries

Question 33

townships, counties, cities, provinces

Answer 33

Political boundaries

Question 34

governed by specific circumstances such as zoning for school children

Answer 34

Situational boundaries

Question 35

What are the most important SDoH?

Answer 35

Income and education

Question 36

How many canadians are foreign born and belong to a visible minority group?

Answer 36

1 in 5

Question 37

range from health promotions and protection of health, to palliative care, rehab and hospital care

Answer 37

health services

Question 38

unemployment benefits, disability pensions, and social assistance for those that are unemployed, have a physical or mental disability, or other factors requiring aid

Answer 38

social services

Question 39

individuals living in the countryside outside centers of 1000 or more population

Answer 39

census rural

Question 40

rural communities as individuals in communities with less than 150 persons per square km

Answer 40

definition of rural according to the Organization of Economic cooperation and development (OECD)

Question 41

What percentage of Canadian land is rural or remote?

Answer 41

95%