Chapter 1 review 2250

What is the community health nurse (CHN) practising when the primary focus is on populations that live in the community, as opposed to those in institutions, with an emphasis on strategies for health promotion, health maintenance, and disease prevention?

• Population health

• Public health

• Primary care

• Primary health care

What is an example of tertiary prevention?

• Intervention that aims to interrupt the course of disease

• A process of empowering people to increase control

• Seeking to detect disease early in its progression

• Measures taken to prevent the occurrence of disease

What aims to reduce health inequalities among population groups through the use of protection, prevention, and promotion strategies?

• Determinants of health

• Downstream thinking

• Population health

• Primary care

Which of the following was established in 2004 to support a sustainable health care system in Canada?

• Health Canada

• Community Health Nurses of Canada

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research

• Public Health agency of Canada

Which determinant of health for Indigenous peoples is not included in the list of social determinants of health?

• Indigenous status

• Gender

• Colonialism

• Education

A nurse works with members of a low-income neighbourhood to identify their concerns, skills, and goals for health. In response to the issue of food insecurity, community members develop an action group that plants a garden to increase access to fresh food and allows them to sell a portion of the produce at a local farmer’s market. Which of the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice is reflected in this nurse’s actions?

• Capacity building

• Professional relationships

• Health equity

• Health maintenance, restoration, and palliation

The CHN who advocates for safe playground equipment on school property is demonstrating recognition of which perspectives?

• Advocacy is necessary to champion the purchase of expensive equipment.

• • Healthy child development requires exposure to structured physical play.

  
  

• The human-built environment directly affects the health of children.

• • School boards are primarily concerned about academic matters.

  
  

Climate change is an example of which one of the following?

• A determinant of health

• A transnational health issue

• A social justice issue

• A planetary health issue

Within the context of primary health care, which term refers to ensuring fairness and equity in health services so that everyone has equal access to health care?

• Distributive justice

• Beneficence

• Global health

• Social justice

The CHN who considers the determinants of health and other relevant economic, sociopolitical, and environmental factors that might affect health is using which approach(es)? (Select all that apply.)

• Downstream thinking

• Macroscopic focus

• Microscopic focus

• Upstream thinking