NR472_Exam1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Who is Lilian Wald
public health nurse, found of american community nursing. Created Henry Street.
What is the Henry Street Settlement
social services, art programs and healthcare services
What is a partnership?
partner w/ communities and populations to address health and social conditions
4 ways to advocate for patients
housing, education, access to care, lifestyle changes
- What is primary prevention
- What is secondary prevention
- What is tertiary prevention
- No health issue, education, health promotion, and specific protection, Vaccinations
- Screenings! early diagnosis,p rompt tx, disability limitation
- Restoration, rehab. Most severe admtted
Decide how severe disease is, before answering. If no disease its primary
- Examples of Primary
- What is an example of prevention of all three (1,2,3)
- fluoride i water, hand hygiene campaign, teaching
- Health fairs
What is the focus of population based care?
greatest good for greatest number of people
What are the 3 levels of interventions
- Systems
- Community
- Individual
What is a system?
Policy or decision making how they affect communities. Ex: health teaching, counseling
What is a community
- grps of individuals held together by similar characteristicsn, needs, functions.
- Part of the whole
What is an individual comprised of?
individuals & families
What is an aggregate?
- population group within defined population
- many different communities
- sum/whole
- ex: federal gov’t, the unemployed in a community
What is a population
- collection people with common tratis (phys, environmental)
What is a subpopulation
- group within the context of a larger group
- ex: older than 65- that smoke
What is case management?
- ensure utilization of services and resources
- assistance within, between and outside of facilities.
Core Public Health Functions x3
- Assessment
- Assurance
- Policy Development
How does public health assess?
- diagnose/investigate
- monitor health status
- ex: does community have enough doctors?
- recording the number of births and deaths
- tracking health trends
- conducting laboratory analyses
- evaluating the effectiveness of programs
What does public health assure?
- enforce laws (sanitary codes)
- fit to work?
- access to health services
- competency
- effectiveness, accessibility
- research
- Ex: education. licensure, inspection
What does public health do in terms of policy?
- inform
- educate
- empower
- set goals for health services
- mobilize community partnerships to idenfity and solve health problems
- standards of care
- ex:social marketing, health promotion, Setting immunization standards for children
What is primary health care
- Community oriented
- prevention
- self reliance
- curative, rehab
What is primary care
- Community based
- individual
- cure
- generalist providers
- professional dominance
