Unit III Exam
Pay attention to tables, boxes, and figures in chapters
Week 6
Chapter 24: Rural
● Understanding rural areas.
● There are health disparities in rural areas (lack of access and few resources, including emergency care).
● Rural healthcare delivery.
● Rural community nursing.
Chapter 25: Populations affected by mental illness
● Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
● Overview of mental health.
● Factors influencing mental health.
● Role of community health nurse and mental health.
● Prevalence of substance abuse.
● Public health of substance abuse.
Chapter 26: Communicable disease
● Identifying communicable diseases.
● Chain of transmission.
● Public health control of communicable disease.
● Notable infection information in the US, such as vector-borne diseases, vaccines, and food-borne diseases.
○ Social determinants of health.
● Healthy People 2020/2030 goals:
○ Immunizations/infections.
○ STIs (continues to be at high levels in the US), and HIV.
● Notifiable infections: box 26.4.
○ Anthrax
○ Arboviral neuroinvasive and non-neuroinvasive diseases:
■ California serogroup virus disease, Chicungunya virus disease, Eastern equine encephalitis, Powassan
virus disease, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus disease, and Western equine encephalitis
○ Babesiosis
○ Botulism
■ (foodborne, infant, wound, and other)
○ Brucellosis
○ Campylobacteriosis
○ Chancroid
○ Chlamydia trachomatis, genital infections
○ Cholera
○ Coccidioidomycosis
○ Congenital syphilis
○ Cryptosporidiosis
○ Cyclosporiasis
○ Dengue virus infections
■ (dengue, denguelike illness, severe dengue)
○ Diphtheria
○ Ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis
■ (Anaplasma phagocytophilium, Ehrichia chaf eensis, Ehrlichia ewingii, undetermined human
ehrlichiosis/anaplasmosis)
○ Giardiasis
○ Gonorrhea
○ Haemophilus influenzae, invasive disease
○ Hansen disease (leprosy)
○ Hantavirus infection
○ Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
○ Hemolytic uremic syndrome, postdiarrheal
