Exam 5: Concepts of Health

Which understanding of health is primary health care based on?

Which is the best predictor of an individual's health?

What approach would a nurse who is practising within a systems view of health use?

A nurse has received funds to create a heart health project.Which project has the most potential benefit?

What model is primarily used by governments to fund health care in Canada?

Define and contrast the medical model and the systems view of health.

When did health emerge as a central concept for nursing?

A community health nurse recognizes that broad contextual factors,such as family,influence health.What health promotion perspective does this nurse use?

Discuss three reasons why it is important for CHNs to be aware of the various discourses on health.

A community health nurse is writing a funding proposal that seeks to explore alternatives to the medical model.What argument would the nurse use to critique the medical model?

Ben is a 50-year-old man who works part time in construction.His common-law partner,Joanne,is 47 years old and works full time at a large box store.They have one child,JP,age 25,who is going to a local college to become a plumber.Ben and Joanne have been together for 25 years.They live in a small duplex in an older working-class neighbourhood.Joanne has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer.Ben has been a smoker since leaving home at age 14.Joanne's mother died of lung cancer and her father died of emphysema.Ben and Joanne moved to Alberta from eastern Canada three years ago to find work and have no family,but they do have a large group of friends from "back home." Describe the factors that influence the health of the above family,using five factors from a medical model and five factors from a systems view.

What consistent theme would emerge if a nurse interviewed professionals and lay people about their definition of health?

Jenna,24 years old,is a single parent of two young children.She is unemployed,lives in subsidized housing,and has type 1 diabetes.What is the most significant social determinant of health for this family?

What description is consistent with the "unfolding fulfillment" theme used to describe the lived experience of health and disease from the lay perspective?

A nurse is practising within a systems view of health.What statement reflects the nurse's belief about health?

Which statement best illustrates a view of health from the population health perspective?

What is a discourse according to Lupton?

What population health model would most likely be used in a prenatal outreach program for young pregnant teens?

What is perceived by many community health nurses (CHNs)to be the key to health care reform?

A community health nurse working in a remote northern community has noticed a sharp increase in the number of teens coming to the clinic with sexually transmitted infections (STIs).What strategy is an example of a mid-stream approach to the increased incidence of STIs?