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Define public health

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  • What we do collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy
  • Focus on prevention and protection
  • “We” = encompasses many professionals
  • “Conditions” = access to care, environmental conditions, other SDOH
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Define public health nursing

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  • Synthesis of nursing theory and public health theory applied to promoting and preserving health of populations
  • Population-based lens
  • Focus on preventing disease and disability; promoting and protecting health of the community as a whole
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Describe the Quad Council

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  • Alliance of 4 member organizations that address nursing and public health issues
  • Members: Public Health Nursing section of American public Health Association, Association of State and Territorial Directors of Public Health Nursing, Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, National Association of School Nurses
  • Published Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing Practice and Core Competencies
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Understand the components of population-based practice

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  • Focus on entire population (collection of individuals who have one or more common characteristics)
  • Grounded in assessment of population’s health status
  • Considers broad determinants of health
  • Emphasizes all levels of prevention
  • Intervenes with communities, systems, individuals, families
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Explain how social ecological model and health impact pyramid serve as frameworks for working in public health

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  • Social Ecological Model: Individual (knowledge/skill) is influenced by Interpersonal (families/friends), Organizational (organization and institution), Community (relationships btw organizations), and Public Policy (national/state/local laws)
  • Health Impact Pyramid: Socioeconomic Factors, Changing Context to make individuals’ default decisions healthy, Long-lasting protective interventions, Clinical interventions, Counseling and education. Individual effort needed increases toward top of pyramid and population impact increases toward bottom of pyramid
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List and define the 3 core public health functions

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  • Assessment: systematically collecting data on population, monitoring health status of population, making health information available (monitor health, diagnose and investigate)
  • Policy Development and Planning: provide leadership in developing policies that support the health of the population (inform, educate, empower, mobilize community partnerships, develop policies)
  • Assurance: ensuring essential community-oriented health services are available (enforce laws, link to/provide care, assure competent workforce, evaluate, research)
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List and define the levels of prevention

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  • Primary: prevention of initial occurrence of disease/illness (vaccination, hand hygiene)
  • Secondary: early detection of disease and treatment with goal of limiting severity and adverse events (screening)
  • Tertiary: maximization of recovery after illness or injury (rehab)