What historically have been public health nurses' two most important priorities?

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Historically, public health nurses prioritized collective political activity and community collaboration to address social determinants like poverty, rather than individual care.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Health education is designed to predispose, enable, and reinforce voluntary behavior conducive to health. Health education is unable to prevent disease from occurring, and it is not the most cost-effective way to improve health.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Community health education with the community as client is based on practical, useful, and scientifically sound methods and widely accessible technology. An effective program relates economic, political, and epidemiological factors to internal behavioral and communication factors. Thus the program activities are viewed within a sociopolitical structure especially within the local environmental settings.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: The HBM is a value expectancy theory that addresses factors that promote health-enhancing behavior. The HBM considers perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, perceived barriers, and other sociopsychological and structural variables. Self-efficacy, defined as the notion that an individual can act successfully on a given behavior to produce the desired outcome, was later added to the HBM.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Banking education where teachers give information, which learners then regurgitate at examination time, is not useful. Problem-solving education with active participation and ongoing dialogue encourages learners to be critical and reflective about health issues.