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History of Public Health Questions
Question 1 of 5
Which statement best describes a weakness of early nursing theories?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Most nursing theories have an extremely narrow focus on individual nurse-patient care situations. This microscopic focus ignores the broader global social macroscopic perspective.
Question 2 of 5
Which statement best describes the major assumption of the Health Belief Model (HBM)?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The HBM is based on the assumption that the primary reason people act is disease avoidance. Such avoidance means they perceive themselves as susceptible to a serious disease, there is some cue to action, and there are more benefits than barriers to acting.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is using Milio's framework for prevention to improve the health of clients. Which would the nurse most likely implement?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The range of available choices is critical in shaping a society's overall health status. Policy decisions in governmental and private organizations shape these choices. Hence, national-level policy making is the best way to impact the health of most Americans rather than continue to concentrate on imparting information in an effort to change individual behaviors. Milo challenged the notion that the main determinant for unhealthful behavior choice is lack of knowledge.
Question 4 of 5
Which health-related variable is examined by the critical theoretical perspective?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Critical theoretical perspective examines social inequalities within the broader political, economic, and social systems of society that keep people from reaching their full potential. Cultural beliefs, the effect of history and tradition, and ethnic and racial differences are not examined by the critical theoretical perspective.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is using Healthy People 2020 as a guide to improve the health and well-being of the community. Which strategy would the nurse most likely implement?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The chapter emphasizes the need to go beyond individual lifestyle behaviors to the social, economic, political, and value-laden processes of daily life that affect health (social determinants of health). Based on Healthy People 2020, advances are needed in these areas in order to improve health.