Absenteeism due to illness has increased recently in the local middle school. The increase is noted to be related to exacerbation of asthma symptoms in the student population
Which would be the most effective approach in decreasing absenteeism among this population?
A) Develop an asthma education and surveillance program that addresses students, families, and faculty members.
B) Develop a policy to exclude students with a diagnosis of asthma from admission to the school.
C) Create an asthma prevention plan within the school environment, based in the school nurse's office.
D) Create an education program for faculty related to the prevention of exacerbation of asthma systems.
Ans: A
Feedback:
Community health nurses are focused specifically on modifiable risks of acquiring disease. This requires nurses to analyze trends in risk surveillance data and consider the physical, emotional, and psychosocial challenges people face when confronting disease, physical stressors, and the possibility of premature death. Public health science uses in-depth processes of data collection across the natural history of disease to define trends, and in this way assists nurses and other public health officials in prioritizing the steps needed to minimize risk and improve the quality of care in populations. Only the development of a program that addresses students, families, and faculty members and that takes into account surveillance data is in-depth enough to be effective. The other options do not reflect public health science or approach the problem in a holistic manner.
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