Community Exam K1

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Surveillance

Back 1

Describes and monitors health events through ongoing and systematic
collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data for the
purpose of planning, implementing, and evaluating public health
interventions. [Adapted from MMWR, 1988]

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Disease and other health event investigation

Back 2

Systematically gathers and analyzes data regarding threats to thehealth of populations, ascertains the source of the threat, identifies
cases and others at risk, and determines control measures.

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outreach

Back 3

Locates populations-of-interest or populations-at-risk and provides
information about the nature of the concern, what can be done
about it, and how services can be obtained.

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screening

Back 4

Identifies individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or
asymptomatic disease conditions in populations.

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case finding

Back 5

Locates individuals and families with identified risk factors and
connects them with resources.

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referral and follow up

Back 6

Assists individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/or
communities to identify and access necessary resources in to
prevent or resolve problems or concerns.

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case management

Back 7

Optimizes self-care capabilities of individuals and families and the
capacity of systems and communities to coordinate and provide
services.

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delegated functions

Back 8

Direct care tasks a registered professional nurse carries out under the
authority of a health care practitioner as allowed by law. Delegated
functions also include any direct care tasks a registered professional
nurse entrusts to other appropriate personnel to perform.

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health teaching

Back 9

Communicates facts, ideas and skills that change knowledge, attitudes,
values, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of individuals, families,
systems, and/or communities.

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counceling

Back 10

Establishes an interpersonal relationship with a community, a system,
family or individual intended to increase or enhance their capacity
for self-care and coping. Counseling engages the community, a
system, family or individual at an emotional level.

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consultation

Back 11

Seeks information and generates optional solutions to perceived
problems or issues through interactive problem solving with a
community, system, family or individual. The community, system,
family or individual selects and acts on the option best meeting the
circumstances.

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collaboration

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Commits two or more persons or organizations to achieve a common
goal through enhancing the capacity of one or more of the members
to promote and protect health. [adapted from Henneman, Lee, and
Cohen “Collaboration: A Concept Analysis” in J. Advanced
Nursing Vol 21 1995: 103-109]

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coalition building

Back 13

Promotes and develops alliances among organizations or
constituencies for a common purpose. It builds linkages, solves problems, and/oconcerns.

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community organizing

Back 14

Helps community groups to identify common problems or goals,
mobilize resources, and develop and implement strategies for
reaching the goals they collectively have set

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advocacy

Back 15

Pleads someone’s cause or act on someone’s behalf, with a focus on
developing the community, system, individual or family’s capacity
to plead their own cause or act on their own behalf.

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social marketing

Back 16

Utilizes commercial marketing principles and technologies for
programs designed to influence the knowledge, attitudes, values,
beliefs, behaviors, and practices of the population-of-interest.

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policy development

Back 17

Places health issues on decision-makers’ agendas, acquires a plan of
resolution, and determines needed resources. Policy development
results in laws, rules and regulation, ordinances, and policies.

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policy enforcement

Back 18

Compels others to comply with the laws, rules, regulations, ordinances
and policies created in conjunction with policy development.