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36 Cards in this Set
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Hunting and Gathering (Before 10,000 BC) |
small nomadic aggregates very little contagious disease due to separation |
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Settled Village (10,000-6,000 BC) |
closer proximity and more settled/sedentary domestication of animals led to more disease spread of water-borne disease such as Hep A, Dysentery, Typhoid, Cholera |
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Preindustrial Cities (6,000 BC-1800 AD) |
expanding populations in large urban centers increase or prior problems with disease |
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Industrial Cities (1800 AD-1900 AD) |
greater population in urban areas led to more respiratory problems |
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Today (1900 AD to the present) |
more focus on chronic disease in developed countries still problems with infectious disease in non-western countries |
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Who is the woman known for community health nursing |
Lillian Wald |
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Community health nursing differences from acute care nursing |
community health nursing has less monitoring devices, little lab supplies available, the nurse is usually by themselves, its unfamiliar territory, its more than just the patients one problem |
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Community Health facts |
"no man is an island" more than the health of the patient concentration on communities at large interchange between population groups and their environment |
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community health definition |
the identification of needs and the protection and improvement of collective health within a geographically defined area |
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community based nursing-goal |
goal is to manage acute and chronic conditions with the primary client as individuals and families |
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community health nursing -goal |
goal is preserve and protect health with the primary client as the community |
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definition of public health |
the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts |
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facts about public health nursing |
focus on promoting the health of populations, uses nursing, social, and public health science, addressing the needs of populations to determine a plan for intervention of identified needs involved with determination of resource needs and usage to provide adequate health care to all |
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"the mission of public health is..." |
"....social justice, which entitles all people to basic necessities such a adequate income and health protection and accepts collective burdens to make this possible" McEwen and Nies |
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social justive |
all are entitled to basic necessities all are responsible to see that this happens collective burdens to make it possible society is responsible |
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market justice |
only entitled to what you have personally earned collective action and obligations are minimal technological advancements have impaired the development of health care system that protects and preserves population health |
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community |
a collection of people who interact with one another with common interests and a sense of belonging |
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geographic community |
defined by geographic boundaries |
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common-interest community |
interest or goal that binds others together |
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community of solution |
come together to solve a problem |
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examples of a community |
city of Wichita Sedgwick County |
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examples of a population |
high school students in Wichita All elders in Sedgwick County |
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examples of an aggregate |
female high school students in Wichita male elders in Sedgwick County with COPD |
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health determinants |
policies and interventions and access to quality health care all go into: physical environment and social environment which goes to biology and behavior then to the individual |
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determinants of health that can't be changed |
age gender heredity cultural practices (can't and can be changed) |
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determinant of health that can be changed |
tobacco use, diet, substance abuse, physical environment, social environment, health care access, economic conditions, cultural practices |
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population health determinants |
social and political environment, access to care, insurance coverage |
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individual health determinants |
age, gender, family, health habits |
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levels of prevention |
level 1-Primary prevention activities level 2-Secondary Prevention Activities level 3- Tertiary Prevention Activities |
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primary prevention activities |
prevention of problems before they occur keeping illness or injuries from occurring example: immunizations |
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secondary prevention activities |
early detection and interventions detect and treat at the earliest stage example: screening for STD |
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tertiary prevention activities |
correction and prevention of deterioration of disease state reduce the extent and severity (restore or preserve) example: teaching insulin administration in the home |
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what are some vulnerable populations? |
elderly, children, homeless, substances abusers, immigrants, poor, abused, severely mentally ill |
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what is healthy people 2020? |
a comprehensive set of national health objectives for the decade developed by a collaborative process designed to measure progress over time a public health document that is art strategic plan, part textbook on public health priorities |
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what is the mission of healthy people 2020? |
ID nationwide health improvement priorities increase public awareness and understanding provide measurable objectives and goals engage multiple sectors ID critical research, evaluation, and data collection |
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challenges for public health today |
new causes of mortality and morbidity health insurance or lack of it cost of health care is increasing bio-terrorism promoting the health of populations when this may be detrimental to the health of individuals over all decrease of community resources |
