National Prevention Strategy targets intervention in multiple setting to move the health of the

populations from

A. Poor to rich

B. Wellness to health

C. Shift from sickness to prevention

D. Sadness to happiness

Rational: Called for under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Developed by National Prevention Council

Four Strategic Directions:

1. Building healthy and safe community environments

2. Expanding quality preventive services in both clinical and community settings

3. Empowering people to make healthy choices

4. Eliminating health disparities

To understand the causes of health and disease, epidemiology studies:

a. Individuals

b. Families

c. Groups

d. Populations

a nurse is teaching a client diagnosed with gonorrhea how to prevent reinfection and further

spread. Which of the following describes the action taken by the nurse?

Primary prevention

Secondary promotion

Tertiary prevention

Secondary prevention

Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and prompt treatment of disease, injury, or disability.

Primary prevention refers to those interventions aimed at focuses on chronic care and rehabilitation,

Primary health care refers to the first line of care provided to patients typically by a physician or other

health care provider.

PHNs utilize registries to identify children with delayed or missing immunizations. They

subsequently follow up with families by phone calls or home visits. Which of the following levels of

practice is being implemented?

Policy

Systems

Individual

Community

A nurse who is involved in identifying individuals with unrecognized health risk factors or

asymptomatic disease is using which intervention?

a. Screening

b. Referral and follow-up

c. Surveillance

d. Health teaching