Community and Public Health Nursing, Evidence for Practice 2nd Edition by Gail A. Harkness, Rosanna DeMarco
Community and Public Health Nursing, Evidence for Practice 2nd Edition by Gail A. Harkness, Rosanna DeMarco
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Chapter 3- Health and the Global Environment
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
| 1. | You are a nurse who is teaching a class of nursing students about health and wellness in society. How would you define to the students what the World Health Organization definition of health is? | |
| A) | A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity | |
| B) | Factors that affect outcomes of health status, such as physical environment, social environment, health behaviors, and individual health, as well as broader factors such as access to health services and overall health policies and interventions | |
| C) | Health issues and concerns that transcend national boundaries and may best be addressed by cooperative actions and solutions | |
| D) | Descriptors of the general health of a nation that are grouped into four categories: morbidity and mortality, risk factors, health service coverage, and health system resources | |
| 2. | You are the nurse who is collecting specific data related to risk factors, health indicators, and health outcomes that determine the burden of disease. What specific data would HALE yield about health indicators and outcomes? | |
| A) | Average number of years a newborn is expected to live if current mortality rates continue to apply. | |
| B) | Average number of years that a person can expect to live in “full health” by taking into account years lived in less than full health due to disease and/or injury. | |
| C) | Quantifying the burden of disease to a healthy life. The loss of years related to burden of disease. The gap in years reflects the current state of health versus an optimum state of health of a nation. | |
| D) | Quantifying the burden of acute illness to a healthy life. The loss of years related to burden of acute illness. The gap in years reflects the current state of health versus an optimum state of health of a nation. | |
| 3. | You are the nurse preparing a presentation about WHO World Health Statistics Report for 2008. What would you highlight about the statistics in the presentation? | |
| A) | Maternal morbidity is declining too slowly. | |
| B) | The gap in coverage in the four key intervention areas of family planning, maternal and neonatal care, immunization, and treatment of sick children remains wide. | |
| C) | The number of people living with diabetes mellitus continues to rise but is lower than previously expected. | |
| D) | Use of insecticide-treated nets to prevent malaria has increased and the poor do benefit from malaria interventions. | |
| 4. | You are documenting what type of care a patient is receiving. One of the assigned patients in your caseload as a community health nurse has the most means and is consuming the most care, whereas a second patient with the least means and greatest health problems is consuming the least care. Using your knowledge, you know that public spending on health services most often benefits the rich more than the poor in high- and low-income countries alike. What type of care is represented for the two assigned patients? | |
| A) | Inverse | |
| B) | Impoverishing | |
| C) | Fragmented and fragmenting | |
| D) | Unsafe | |
| 5. | You are the nurse assigned to prepare the yearly goals for the community health agency and the framework to be used is the Millennium Development Goals for improving global health. Using your knowledge what is one of the goals that you would recommend to be included in the yearly goals? | |
| A) | Decrease extreme hunger and poverty | |
| B) | Achieve universal secondary education | |
| C) | Reduce child morbidity | |
| D) | Promote gender equality and empower women | |
Answer Key
| 1. | A |
| 2. | B |
| 3. | B |
| 4. | A |
| 5. | D |
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