Question 1: What are the key principles and practices for achieving maternal health in a community? Provide specific examples and explain what your own role will be in this area.
Question 2: How should a community effectively organize to achieve improvement in community health? Provide specific examples, and explain what your own role will be as a healthcare manager or administrator.
Question 3: What is meant by "health promotion" and why is it such a key element of programming for community health today?
Question 4: Visit the World Health Organization website located at https://www.who.int and click on Programmes and projects. From here, search for Global Health Observatory Maternal and reproductive health and click on the second link listed, Maternal and reproductive health. Then click on View interactive map.
Does anything about this map surprise you? Why or why not? What can be done in a comprehensive program to reduce maternal mortality? Consider primary, secondary and tertiary elements.
Question 5: The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) recommends a formula-based approach with minimum ratios of nurses to students, depending on the needs of the student populations as follows: 1:750 for students in the general population, 1:225 in the student populations requiring daily professional school nursing services or interventions, 1:125 in student populations with complex health care needs, and 1:1 may be necessary for individual students who require daily and continuous professional nursing services. Other factors that should be considered in the formula-based approach are number of students on free or reduced lunch, number of students with a medical home, and average number of emergency services per year. Considering the role of healthcare managers and administrators in organizing and building for community health, do you agree with the NASN approach? Why or why not?