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answers 2025 What is an aggregate?

• A community compose of people who have common characteristics

What are some examples of aggregates?

• Senior citizens
• Ethnic backgrounds
• Religious organizations

What does a community of solution mean?

• Common problems that unite individuals

What must a community have in order to qualify as a community?

• Location
• Space in time
• Social system

What does a Geographic community encompass?

• Less formalized areas that lack official geopolitical boundaries

What are aspects of a health community?

• Physical environments
• Education
• Safety/ transportation
• Political government
• Health and Social services
• Communications
• Economics
• Recreation

What does the Healthy Cities and Healthy places model urge? 2 / 4

• Positive health changes

What does the Healthy Cities and Healthy places model stress?

• interconnectedness between people, the public, and private sectors

What is the windshield survey utilized for?

• To make organized observations of the area and it people

How might a windshield survey be performed?

• Via Driving or Walking to gain an understanding of the environmental

layout What does the Windshield survey locate?

• Environmental layout
• Geographic features
• Services
• Businesses
• Industries

What are the stages in disease history?

• Hunting and Gathering
• Settled villages
• Preindustrial cities
• Industrial cities
• Present stage

What is the definition of an Endemic?

• Diseases that are always present within the population

What is an example of an Endemic disease?

• Cold
• Pneumonia

What is the definition of an Epidemic?

• Diseases that are not always in a population but flare up on occasion

What is an example of an Epidemic?

• Diphtheria
• Measles

What is the definition of a pandemic?

• The existence of disease in a large proportion of the population

What are some types of pandemics?

• Global pandemic 3 / 4

What are some examples of pandemics?

• HIV

- AIDS

• Influenza type A

What is Health Visiting?

• Visiting homes to provide information to improve health

What does Upstream Thinking actions focus on?Modification of the following precursors of poor health throughout the

world:

• economic
• Political
• Environmental

What does the census tract do?

• It subdivides larger communities

What does the Census Tract facilitate?

• the organization of resident information in specific community

geographic locales.What senses does a nurse utilize in the windshield survey?

• Sight
• Sense
• Sound

What does a metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) consist of?

• central city with more than 50,000 people including the associated

suburban or adjacent counties that yields a total Metropolitan area with more than 100,000 people What forms the basis of data of the VITAL Statistics?

• Births
• Deaths
• Marriages
• Divorces
• Adoptions

What does the Community Assessment Parameter Geography influence?

• Nature of the health problems and access to health care

Why is the Community Assessment Parameter Population important?

• Describes the population served and suggests their health risks and

needs

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