Understanding Community and Vulnerable Populations

Providing sick care in community settings

Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts

Nursing practice and public health practice

<p>Remaining responsive to the community’s health needs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health education, family planning, accident prevention</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>City planner, social worker, physician</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and efficiency through organized community efforts</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Basic elements of professional clinical nursing with public health and community practice</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organizational structure, a broad set of resources, and the Collaborative Activities Needed to accomplish the goal of an optimally healthy community</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promoting and preserving the health of populations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Common interests, living under the same laws and regulations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Groups and communities at a higher risk for poor health due to barriers to social, economic, political, and environmental resources, as well as limitations due to illness or disability</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By organizing ways to combat outbreaks of infectious disease and promoting practices that contribute to individual and collective health</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because evidence indicates that they are community issues, as seen in the spread of the HIV pandemic</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members’ collective sense of belonging, shared identity, values, norms, communication, common interests, and concerns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A community of farmers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collective sense of belonging, shared identity, values, norms, communication, common interests, and concerns.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Vulnerable populations are groups and communities at a higher risk for poor health due to barriers in social, economic, political, and environmental resources, as well as limitations due to illness or disability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communities can influence the spread of disease by providing barriers to protect members, organizing ways to combat outbreaks, and promoting health practices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>City planner, social worker, physician, and other professionals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Health and illness are considered community issues because they are affected by the community's influence on disease spread, health promotion, and barriers to resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main focus of community health nursing is the synthesis of nursing and public health practices to promote and protect the health of populations.</p> Signup and view all the answers