Week 5: At the end of this week, answer/discuss the following:
How does culture influence the decisions a provider may make when selecting an intervention?
Explain how culture impacts provider attitudes? Does it? H
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Week 5: At the end of this week, answer/discuss the following:
How does culture influence the decisions a provider may make when selecting an intervention?
Explain how culture impacts provider attitudes? Does it? How will you assess your own attitudes about various cultures/races/groups?
Review the terms for this week and apply them to population health; for instance: cultural competence, cultural awareness, norms, values, Kleinman Explanatory Model, socioeconomic status, disparities, minorities, food dessert.
What are the social determinants of health? How does a provider integrate knowledge of these social determinants of health into their practice? Why are they important?
Apply social justice theory to the provision of care; what does social justice mean when applied to health care?
What data sources are used to assess determinants of health?
Discriminate populations at risk for development of chronic health
conditions while associating the role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in
levels of promotion.
Compare and contrast variables that differentiate those categorized at
being at risk for marginalization of health care.
Week 6: At the end of this week, answer/discuss the following:
Integrate risk / screening as it applies to genetics? How, what methods are used to screen for health conditions that may have genetic connections? What guidelines support evidence-based decision making in the area of genetics?
What is genetic risk assessment? How is it determined?
Explore and integrate genetic terminology, for example: Genomics, pharmacogenomics, genetic epidemiology. Also, refer to HP2020.
What are the components of a genetic risk assessment?
Can you discuss the interplay (connection) between genetics and the environment, how do they influence one another? Do they?
What is the Genetics Nondiscrimination Act?
Week 7: At the end of this week, answer/discuss the following:
Can you discuss the types of outbreaks at a population health level?
How is the epidemiological triangle related to pandemics, outbreaks?
If you were to explain “disaster epidemiology” to a colleague or nursing student, what would you say?
What is the WHO? What do the SDG’s (formerly MDG’S) mean?
Connect social justice theory to the implications of outbreaks.
What is the history of the World Health Organization?
Be sure to review the articles: Angelini (2017) and Kurth (2017): What are said to be some of the noticed health effects of climate change? Can you speak to the “Call to Action” elements/content?
How do you assess an area’s resources and its relationship to the health of a region?
What is a pandemic and what does the severity index tell us about deaths?
A Pandemic is a global epidemic that spreads to more than one continent.
How does the WHO organize the 6 phases of a pandemic? The World Health Organization defines a pandemic as a global epidemic that spreads to more than one continent. There are six phases with 1 to 3 relating directly to preparedness and phases 4 to 6 dealing with response and mitigation efforts.
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