Community Health Unit 1

The identification of needs, the protection and improvement of collective health, within a group or geographical location is defined as

• Community

• Prevention

• Community Health

• Health Promotion

A collection of people who share some important features, traits and interests in their lives can be defined as?

• Social practices

• Community

• Family

• Community Health

A mass or grouping of distinct individuals who are considered as a whole and who are loosely associated with one another is referred to as the:

• population aggregate

• community members

• society

• Community Health

The process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health is known as

• Public Health

• Health Promotion

• Community Nursing

• Primary Prevention

A PHN is teaching a group of nursing students about the importance of public health. The PHN should tell the students that public health is the:

• Study of disease conditions in a defined population

• Prevention of illness.

• Promotion of healthy lifestyles, and injury prevention.

• Science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities.

-------- --------is delivered in a variety of acessible community sittings such as physicians' offices, managed care organizations, community health centres.

The concept that precedes initial prevention and focuses on risk factor prevention is defined as

• Primordial Prevention

• Primary Prevention

• Secondary

  Prevention

• Tertiary

  Prevention

Vaccinations, counselling to change high-risk behaviours, and sometimes chemoprevention is considered as what type of presentation?

• Primordial prevention

• Primary Prevention

• Secondary Prevention

• Tertiary Prevention