ch 10 health essential health services

assess

monitor population status, factors that influence health, and community needs

Use data and community input

investigate

diagnose+address health issues and hazards

identify and respond to outbreaks

Use epidemiologic information and real-time data to recognize patterns and threats

communicate

inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it

Use health literacy, risk communication, and culturally appropriate approaches

strengthen

support and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health

Bring together partners from multiple sectors

build relationships w/ community members+organizations

policies and laws

create and implement

Work with partners and communities to implement, evaluate, and improve health strategies

legal action

use regulatory actions designed to improve and protect the public’s health (ex. sanitation)

equity

Connect people with needed health and social services, including prevention

identify and address barriers

building the workforce

Provide education and training in technical, strategic, and leadership skills

improve public health functions

use ongoing evaluation, research, and continuous quality improvement

maintain infrastructure

Maintain the systems, leadership, resources, and partnerships needed for public health

Florence Nightingale

collected and analyzed data about health services and outcomes

established first nurse corps to tend to soldiers in the Crimea War

Sojourner Truth

advocate for abolishing slavery and supporting women's rights

lobbied for federal funds to train nurses and physicians

Clara Barton

founded the red cross

Lavinia Dock

allow nurses to control the nursing profession instead of physicians

founded national league for nurses

active in the suffrage movement+birth control

Mary Breckenridge

develop nursing in rural Kentucky- Frontier Nursing Service

Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail

improved healthcare for Native Americans

Florence Wald

nursing leader in establishing hospice care

Dr. Ruth Watson Lubic

nurse-midwife who crusaded for freestanding birth centers

policy

a course of action to be followed by a government, business, or institution to obtain a desired effect

public policy

health of the majority> individual freedoms+corporate interests

ex. local or regional effort to prevent the sale of tobacco or alcohol to minors

health policy

the decisions, plans, goals, and guidelines established by governments to direct healthcare

ex. to prevent an epidemic, a program for inoculating a population is developed and implemented, and health resource allocation is determined

nursing policy

nursing leadership shapes health policy and nursing practice

institutional policies

rules that govern worksites and identify the institution's goals, operation, and treatment of employees (wider scope than organizational)

organizational policies

rules that govern organizations and their positions on issues with which the organization is concerned

social policy

associated with individuals and communities

ex. SNAP/EBT, medicaid, student financial aid

public health law

police power

disease and injury prevention

law of populations

statutes

any laws passed by a legislative body at the federal, state, or local level

organization

a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose

professional association

a nonprofit organization seeking to further a particular profession

ex. joint commission, ANA