How a Community Health Nurse and Public Health Intervention Discussion

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Week 1: Determinants of Health

This week's graded topics relate to the following Course Outcome (CO).

CO1: Apply principles of nursing theory to the public health system by analyzing determinants of health and the public health intervention wheel. (PO1)

What are some factors that make some people healthy and others ill? Healthy People 2020 identifies five determinants of health that influence the health of individuals and populations. Healthy People 2020 describes them as "a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health status" (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018, About Determinants of Health, para. 1). Determinants fall into five categories, including (a) policy making, (b) social factors, (c) health services, (d) individual behavior, and (e) biology and genetics.

Discuss how a community health nurse (CHN) could use one of the 17 intervention categories from the Public Health Intervention Wheel to address this determinant (Nies & McEwen, 2019).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2018). Healthy People 2020: About Determinants of Health. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundatio...

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Health services are the determinant that I select. Both quality of health and health
services are imperative elements to achieve an improved health system. Currently, many persons
have restricted or no access to health services which is not good but a bad influence to the
individual’s well-being and worth of life. High fee of covers, health and medicines are big
problems within our community and owing to these probl...


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