What Do You Understand of the Term Community Health Flashcards

What do you know about community health? Community health is a division of public health that is aimed at the prevention, maintenance, and improvement of the health status of particular population groups and communities. It is the contrast of environmental health, which is focused on the physical environment. Read these educational flashcards and learn more about community health and then take this quiz to see how much you learned. Health care workers 

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One who provides basic community health care services for promotion of health, prevention of illness, simple treatment and rehabilitation. The services utilize the philosophy, content, method and skills in public health care.
Community Health Worker
"care is not just provided to those who seek it, it is the responsibility of the CHN to identify those..." pertains to:

a. Community Health Workers
b. Community Health Nursing
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Responsibility of Community Health Nurses are:
1. Identification of Unmet Needs
2. Advocacy and Referrals
3. Teaching
4. Environmental Management
5. Collaboration and Coordination
6. Political Action
Refers to working together.
Collaboration (responsibilities of a CHN)
It is the bringing together the parts or agents of a plan into a common whole.
Coordination (responsibilities of a CHN)
The process of directing someone to another source of assistance.
Referral
An instance of speaking in behalf of someone else.
Advocacy
A type of care wherein one is directly involved in the process.
Direct
A type of care wherein one delegates a task to another person.
Indirect
Linda gives Paracetamol to a patient. What type of care is being exhibited?
Direct
Any combination of learning process designed to facilitate voluntary adoptions of behavior conducive to individual and community health.
Health Education
Perceived condition that exists between parties. Clash between hostile or opposing parties
Conflict
Application of techniques to resolve perceived and real indifferences between 2 parties.
Conflict management
Types of Conflict
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Intergroup
Intragroup
Intraorganization
Conflict between 2 or more individuals.
Interpersonal conflict