Pediatrics EXAM 1 (Ch 1-7) Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025)
World Health Organization (WHO) Definition: HEALTH -
Correct Answers ✅"A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."
Historical Viewpoint: Children - Correct Answers ✅**Prior
to the late 18th Century:
-Children were viewed as commodities or property -Their role was to increase population and help with workload -High rates of child mortality were common
**End of 19th century:
-Better understanding of cause of illnesses -New public health efforts -Milk pasteurization -Compulsory vaccination programs -Public schools were established -Court viewed children as minors (not property!)
**19th and early 20th centuries:
-Urban public health improvements -Improved sanitation, treated municipal drinking water, and hygiene awareness 1 / 4
Pediatrics EXAM 1 (Ch 1-7) Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) -Growth of public health initiatives -Growing knowledge -Nutrition, sanitation, bacteriology, pharmacology, and psychology
**End of 20th century:
-New antibiotics and vaccines -Increased survival rates -Increase in chronic versus acute illness -Biotechnology and genetic research Focus of National and International Organizations to Protect Child Rights - Correct Answers ✅-Violence and abuse -Child labor and soldiering -Juvenile justice -Child immigrants and orphaned children -Abandoned or homeless children
FALSE: World Health Organization defined health as "a state
of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." - Correct
Answers ✅T/F: In 2018, the World Health Organization
defined health solely as "an absence of disease or infirmity." 2 / 4
Pediatrics EXAM 1 (Ch 1-7) Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Evolution/Landmark Years of Pediatric Nursing - Correct
Answers ✅-1870: First pediatric professorship awarded to
Abraham Jacobim MD
-1900: Henry Street Settlement House established by Lillian
Wald RN (first public health nurse)
-1902: Lina Rogers, RN, appointed as first full-time public
school nurse (salary paid by the Henry Street Settlement)
-1960s: Pediatric nurse practitioner role developed (first NPs)
-1980s: Maternal and child health standards developed by
ANA
U.S. Surgeon General: HEALTHY PEOPLE - Correct Answers
✅-Set national objectives and metrics for monitoring progress toward goals -Revised every 10 years
**Healthy People 2030: 3 / 4
Pediatrics EXAM 1 (Ch 1-7) Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention agenda working to improve quantity and quality of life for Americans Mortality - Correct Answers ✅-Number of individuals who have died over a specific period (can be overall or from specific cause) -Presented in rates per unit of population (usually 1,000 or more) -Infant mortality often used as indirect measure of the general health of a population *"How DEAD you are" Morbidity - Correct Answers ✅-Measure of prevalence of disease or degree of disability in a population at a particular time (e.g., days lost from school due to a particular problem) -Presented as a rate per unit of population **"How SICK you are"/measure disease
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