Full Description
The previous two editions of this text have earned a solid and respectable standing within the community health nursing market. This edition is a significant, substantive revision that focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. The chapters have been reorganized and streamlined, with several new chapters added. The subtitle has been changed from "Promoting the Health of Aggregates" to "Promoting the Health of Populations" because the term populations is more representative of the book's focus, which is all types and all sizes of groups of people. The book has several unique features that stand out. The upstream thinking approach emphasizes health promotion efforts within a community to address the precursors of poor health. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process, something no other community health nursing book does. Three photo-novellas, which are stories in photograph form, depict the details of real-life community health nursing responsibilities.
Contents
Unit 1: Introduction to Community Health Nursing. 1) Health: A Community View. 2) Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing in Context. 3) Thinking Upstream: Conceptualizing Health from a Population Perspective. Unit 2: The Art and Science of Community Health Nursing. 4) Epidemiology. 5) Community Assessment. 6) Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. 7) Community Health Education. 8) Case Management. Unit 3: Factors that Influence the Health of the Community. 9) The Health Care System. 10) Economics of Health Care. 11) Policy, Politics, and Legislation. 12) Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing. 13) Environmental Health. Unit 4: Aggregates in the Community. 14) Child and Adolescent Health. 15) Womens Health. 16) Mens Health. 17) Family Health. 18) Senior Health. 19) Disabled Populations. 20) Homeless Populations. 21) Rural and Migrant Health. Unit 5: Special Needs in Community Mental Health. 22) Mental Health. 23) Violence in the Community. 24) Substance Abuse. Unit 6: Special Service Needs. 25) Communicable Disease and Public Health. 26) School Health. 27) Occupational Health. 28) Prison Health. 29) Parish Health. 30) Home Health. Unit 7: The Future of Community Health Nursing. 31) Health in the Global Community. 32) Community Health Nursing: Making a Difference
