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Objectives Assignment
1. What are determinates of health and indicators of health and illness related to populations?
2. Describe Healthy People and provide examples of the major categories that encompass health objectives.
3. List the three levels of prevention and provide examples of each.
4. Compare the historical focus of public health on acute disease conditions with our 21st century focus on prevention and chronic disease.
5. Describe the Public Health Prevention Wheel and how it is used.
6. Identify evidence-based sources of information that can be used to collect data about acommunity's health.
7. Describe the community health nurse's role in health planning, implementation, and evaluation.
8. How does epidemiology play a role in public health?
9. Explain the modes of transmission of infectious diseases and provide examples.
10. Describe key areas in the Healthy People objectives that relate to infectious diseases.
11. Describe types of immunity, including herd immunity.
12. Review schedules of immunization, and recommendations for all age groups in the United States. On a separate page, make a chart to indicate each age group and recommendations.
13. Describe the legal responsibility related to communicable diseases in the United States. Provide examples of reportable diseases.
14. Identify nursing activities for control of infectious diseases at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention.
15. Relate risk to health and health promotion.
16. How are people at different levels of risk across the lifespan?
17. Discuss impacts of environmental health and the relationship to risk.
18. Differentiate risk assessment from risk management roles for the community health nurse.
19. Explain the nurse's role in political activities and health policy.