Deck 5: Population-Based Health Care Practice

Question 1

The social and environmental factors that impact on health are collectivity referred to by which of the following terms?

A) population health
B) health status
C) genetics
D) determinants of health

Answer 1

determinants of health

Question 2

Which of the following is a goal of population-based health?

A) to maintain access to health care services
B) to maintain quality of health care services
C) to reduce health care disparities
D) to increase health care delivery costs

Answer 2

to reduce health care disparities

Question 3

What is the name of the federal agency in Canada that oversees federal efforts to prevent and control disease and promote health?

A) Public Health Agency of Canada
B) Health Canada
C) Department of Health and Social Services
D) Canadian Institute of Health Research

Answer 3

Public Health Agency of Canada

Question 4

What is the term for the level of health of an individual,family,group,population,or community?

A) instrumental activities of daily living
B) functional health status
C) health status
D) health-related quality of life

Question 5

What is the model developed by Lawrence Green for planning and evaluating population-based health programs?

A) Community Planning Model
B) the Population Health Model
C) the Precede-Proceed Model
D) the Nursing Process

Question 6

Which of the following is considered the most serious threat to health?

A) lack of adequate food
B) violence
C) contaminated water supply
D) poverty

Question 7

Which of the following do community health nurses consider to be a fundamental aspect of public health practice?

A) wound care
B) prenatal care and postnatal home visits
C) social activism and community collaboration
D) STD follow-up

Question 8

Which of the following initiatives is one of the five strategies for health promotion set out in the Ottawa Charter?

A) educate more doctors
B) increase spending on health
C) increase health budgets
D) strengthen community action

Question 9

In relation to community health,to what does CHC refer?

A) Community Health Counsellor
B) Community Health Centre
C) Civic Homeless Cooperative
D) Community Housing Centre

Question 10

Approximately what percentage of the nursing workforce in Canada is involved in community health?

A) 25 percent
B) 13 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 4 percent

Question 11

Which of the following resulted from a 1986 World Health Organization conference and still provides an international blueprint for health promotion?

A) Alma-Ata Declaration
B) Declaration of Montevideo
C) the Jakarta Proceedings
D) the Ottawa Charter

Question 12

Which of the following states that the prerequisites for health include peace,food,social relations,and empowerment of women?

A) Alma-Ata Declaration
B) Declaration of Montevideo
C) the Jakarta Declaration
D) the Ottawa Charter

Question 13

Which of the following is used in population-based nursing practice to assess,diagnose,plan,implement,and evaluate nursing practice?

A) NANDA
B) comorbidities nursing assessment
C) nursing process
D) population assessment

Question 14

Which organization led the international community in 1978 to declare a commitment to advancing "health for all people of the world"?

A) United Nations
B) Pan American Health Organization
C) World Health Organization
D) The City of Ottawa

Question 15

Which of the following organizations has the stated goal of "attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health"?

A) the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)
B) the World Health Organization (WHO)
C) the Canadian government
D) the Public Health Agency of Canada

Question 16

Which nursing leader is known as one of the first to employ a population-focused practice using aggregated statistics as population-based indices and outcome measures?

A) Christina Mitchell
B) Florence Nightingale
C) Lawrence Green
D) Ethel Johns

Question 17

What term refers to the idea that a whole population or a community has a state of health?

A) social factors
B) community health
C) population health
D) health promotion

Question 18

Which of the following terms refers to the variables that increase or decrease the probability of illness or death?

A) health determinants
B) health disparities
C) vulnerable population groups
D) health risk factors