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COMMUNITY HEALTH
NURSING
(15 LEARNINGS)
1. Health promotion activities
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enhance resources directed at

improving well-being.
 2.Primary prevention relates to activities
directed at preventing a problem before it
occurs by altering susceptibility or
reducing exposure for susceptible
individuals.
 3. Secondary prevention- early
detection and prompt intervention
during the period of early disease
pathogenesis.
 4.Tertiary prevention targets
populations that have experienced
disease or injury and focuses on
limitations of disability and
rehabilitation.
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5. Community organizing is
dynamic and rapidly changing.
6. Self-efficacy is one’s confidence in
one’s ability to take action to reduce
health risks.
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7. The Health Belief Model is a

theoretical model that can be used to
guide health promotion and disease
prevention programs.
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8. In precontemplation people
do not intend to take action in
the foreseeable future
9. Contemplation is the stage
in which people intend to
change.
10. Preparation is the stage in which
people intend to take action in the
immediate future
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11. Action stage is the stage in which

people have made specific overt
modifications in their lifestyles .
 12. In maintenance stage, people
have sustained their behavior
change for a while and intend to
maintain the behavior change going
forward.
13. In termination stage, people have no
desire to return to their unhealthy
behaviors and are sure they will not
relapse.
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14. Conflicts are inevitable in

group dynamics.
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15. ‘Ligtas sa Tigdas ang
Pinas is a mass door-to-
door measles
immunization campaign.
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References
https://www.doh.gov.ph/sites/default/files/health_promotion/GUIDE_Superviso
rsFeb21.pdf
https://aspira.org/sites/default/files/U_III_M_11_cr.pdf
https://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers97/beckwith.htm
https://www.prochange.com/transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change
http://recapp.etr.org/recapp/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.theoriesdetail&PageI
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