Quiz 1 Prep Flashcards
Public health nurse: focus, setting, main prevention level (s)
Focus: population health.
Setting: client homes, community settings, public health office.
Main prevention levels: primordial, primary, secondary
Primary care nurse: focus, setting, main prevention level (s)
Focus: individual health
Setting: primary care clinic, school clinics
Main prevention level: primary, secondary, tertiary
Home health nurse: focus, setting, main prevention level (s)
Focus: individual health
Setting: client nomes, schools, workplaces
Main prevention level: tertiary, palliative care
What are the 5 keys of primary health care?
Accessibility, public participation, health promotion, appropriate technology, intersectoral collaboration
What are the 3 features of social justice?
→ concerned w/ ethical use of power
→ tends to view persons as unique, connected to others an independent, that is vulnerable and unequal in power
→ concern for issues of everyday life, not primarily with crisis issues
Name the l0 social justice attributes:
Equity, human rights, democracy and civil rights, capacity building, just institutions, enabling environments, poverty reduction, ethical practice, advocacy an partnerships
Primary health pyramid from smallest to largest impact:
Counselling an education, clinical interventions, long lasting protective interventions, changing the context to make ppl default decisions healthy, socioeconomic factors
What’s an example of counselling an education?
Eat healthy, be physically active
What’s an example of clinical intervention s?
Medicine for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes
What’s an example of long lasting protective interventions?
Immunizations, brief intervention, cessation tx, colonoscopy
What’s an example of changing the context to make ppl default decisions healthy?
Fluoridation, og trans fat, iodization, smoke free laws, tobacco tax
What’s an example of socioeconomic factors?
Poverty, education, housing, inequality
specific areas of ethical concern relate to:
capacity building, access and equity, professional responsibility and accountability, negligence
what is a legal responsibility of CHNs?
required to disclose health info on a need to know basis and abide by relevant privacy legislation (court orders, subpoenas, or emergency situations)
what do CHNs do?
work collaboratively when building individual and community capacity by using strategies involving empowerment and advocacy
what are the 4 levels of prevention in order?
primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary
what is primordial?
targets social and economic policies affecting health
what is primary?
targets risk factors leading to injury/disease (safety belt laws or vaccinations)
what is secondary?
prevents injury/disease once exposure to risk factors occurs but still in early “preclinical” stage
what is tertiary?
rehabilitating persons with injury/disease to reduce complications (vocational rehab to retrain workers after injury)
what is upstream?
are often prevention and promotion strategies focused on policy interventions that benefit the whole population
- extend beyond addressing individual behaviours an identify programs, policies and environmental changes
what is downstream?
acute care service are usually tertiary prevention measures, are focused on individual tx and cure
what is the Ottawa charter?
the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health
what are the five key areas of the Ottawa charter?
- build healthy public policy
- create supportive environments
- strengthen community action
- develop personal skills
- reorient health services
