"Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations, Fourth Edition", focuses on
the issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing. It retains the book's hallmark
social justice approach, photo novellas that illustrate clinical stories, and a concise presentation. An emphasis
on working with populations combined with the upstream preventive approach prepares students to be engaged participants
in preventing illness and promoting health in community and public settings. New to this edition are a full-color
design, a chapter on disaster management and preparedness, and content on the growing fields of forensic nursing
and hospice. The new features include research highlights, ethical insights, and Healthy People 2010 boxes. Detailed
case studies have been added to several chapters. The enhanced ancillary package provides instructors with an 800-question
test bank including innovative items, new PowerPoint lecture slides, and many other instructional aids. The new
study tools for students are Case Studies with questions and answers and a review Quiz.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Introduction to Community Health Nursing
1. Health: A Community View
2. Historical Factors: Community Health Nursing
3. Thinking Upstream: Nursing Theories and Population-Focused Nursing Practice
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, Legislation, and Community Health Nursing
12. Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing
13. Environmental Health
Unit 4: Aggregates in the Community
14. Child and Adolescent Health
15. Women's Health
16. Men's Health
17. Senior Health
18. Family Health
Unit 5: Vulnerable Populations
19. Populations Affected by Disabilities
20. Homeless Populations
21. Rural and Migrant Health
22. Populations affected by Mental Illness
