Chapter 3: Health, Illness, and Disparities

A nurse assesses patients in a physician's office who are experiencing different levels of health and illness. Which statement best define the concepts of health and illness?

The student nurse learns that illnesses are classified as either acute or chronic. Which are examples of chronic illnesses?

Despite a national focus on health promotion, nurses working with patients in inner-city clinics continue to see disparities in health care for vulnerable populations. Which patients would be considered vulnerable populations?

A nurse has volunteered to give influenza immunizations at a local clinic. What level of care is the nurse demonstrating?

A nurse's neighbor tells the nurse, "I have a high temperature, feel awful, and I am not going to work". What stage of illness behavior is the neighbor exhibiting?

Which clinic patient is most likely to have annual breast examinations and mammograms based on the physical human dimension?

Health promotion activities may occur on a primary, secondary, or tertiary level. Which activities are considered tertiary health promotion?

The agent-host-environment model of health and illness is based on what concept?

When providing health promotion classes, a nurse uses concepts from models of health. What do both the health illness continuum and the high-level wellness models demonstrate?

A nurse follows accepted guidelines for a healthy lifestyle. How can this promote health in others?

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[blank_start]Health[blank_end] [blank_start]promotion[blank_end] activities are traditionally described as occurring on primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.

[blank_start]Health Belief Model[blank_end]: focuses on what people perceive or believe to be true about themselves in relation to their health: 1) perceived susceptibility to a disease 2) perceived seriousness of a disease and 3) perceived benefits of action [blank_start]Health Promotion Model[blank_end]: illustrates how people interact with their environment as they pursue health [blank_start]Health Illness Continuum[blank_end]: views health as a constantly changing, with high-level wellness and death at opposite ends of a graduated scale, or continuum [blank_start]Agent-Host-Environment Model[blank_end]: views the interaction between an external agent, a susceptible host, and the environment as causes of disease in a person. limited when dealing with noninfectious diseases

The nurse practitioner is discussing health promotion with a group of senior nursing students. What would be the best example of secondary health promotion?

A nurse has chosen to characterize a new initiative as "wellness promotion" rather than "health promotion". Which of the following statements best describes the difference between the concept of wellness and health?

The nursing class has just learned that Healthy People 2020 focuses on health disparities. National trends in efforts to prevent these disparities focus on which of the following groups?

Which of the following is an example of the sociocultural dimension influencing a person's health-illness status?

Which of the following is an example of tertiary health promotion?

While providing client care, a nurse determines that a client adheres to the health belief model. Which of the following would the nurse need to assess as a factor possibly affecting the client's response to illness?

A woman over the age of 40 years has an annual mammogram. What level of prevention does this represent?

A client makes a decision to quit smoking and joins a smoking cessation class. This is an example of which of Dunn's processes that help a person know who and what he or she is?

Which model is most useful in examining the cause of disease in an individual, based on external factors?

What is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity?

Your community outreach class is giving a presentation on seat belts and child safety seats at a local firehouse every weekend in October. What levels of health promotion is this an example of?

What level of prevention is noted when the nurse educates a group of mothers of school-age children on self breast examination?

Which of the following is an example of a characteristic of Stage 2 of illness?