Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations
by Mary A. Nies PhD RN FAAN FAAHB, Melanie McEwen PhD RN CNE ANEF FAAN
7th Edition
,Table of Contents
Unit 1: introduction to community health nursing ................................... 4
Chapter 01: health: a community view....................................................................................... 4
Chapter 02: historical factors: community health nursing in context ...................................... 20
Chapter 03: thinking upstream: nursing theories and populationfocused nursing practice .... 38
Chapter 04: health promotion and risk reduction .................................................................... 48
Unit 2: the art and science of community health nursing..................... 61
Chapter 05: epidemiology ......................................................................................................... 61
Chapter 07: community health planning, implementation, and evaluation ............................ 93
Chapter 08: community health education .............................................................................. 110
Chapter 09: case management ............................................................................................... 126
Unit 3: factors that influence the health of the community ................ 137
Chapter 10: policy, politics, legislation, and community health nursing ................................ 137
Chapter 11: the health care system ........................................................................................ 159
Chapter 12: economics of health care .................................................................................... 172
Chapter 13: cultural diversity and community health nursing ............................................... 190
Chapter 14: environmental health .......................................................................................... 209
Chapter 15: health in the global community .......................................................................... 221
Unit 4: aggregates in the community ................................................... 233
Chapter 16: child and adolescent health ................................................................................ 233
Chapter 17: women’s health ................................................................................................... 254
Chapter 18: men’s health ........................................................................................................ 275
Chapter 19: senior health ....................................................................................................... 284
Chapter 20: family health ....................................................................................................... 303
Unit 5: vulnerable populations .............................................................. 320
Chapter 21: populations affected by disabilities..................................................................... 320
Chapter 22: veterans health ................................................................................................... 333
Chapter 23: homeless populations ......................................................................................... 347
Chapter 24: rural and migrant health ..................................................................................... 362
, Chapter 25: populations affected by mental illness ............................................................... 381
Unit 6: population health problems ...................................................... 394
Chapter 26: communicable disease ........................................................................................ 394
Chapter 27: substance abuse .................................................................................................. 408
Chapter 28: violence ............................................................................................................... 428
Chapter 29: natural and manmade disasters .......................................................................... 441
Unit 7: community health settings ....................................................... 455
Chapter: 30. School health ..................................................................................................... 455
Chapter 31: occupational health............................................................................................. 472
Chapter 32: forensic and correctional nursing........................................................................ 488
Chapter 33: faith community nursing ..................................................................................... 501
Chapter 34: home health and hospice.................................................................................... 511
, Unit 1: introduction to community health nursing
Chapter 01: health: a community view
Multiple choice
1. Which best describes the primary reason that Americans are concerned about health
care?
A. Politicians are discussing how to improve health care.
B. The media has provided mixed messages about the health care system.
C. Our national health care costs keep increasing.
D. The new health care system offers free services to Americans.
Correct ans> c
The primary reason for the focus on health care is the constantly increasing costs, which cannot
be sustained. The costs of caring for the sick accounted for the majority of escalating health care
dollars, which increased from 5.7% of the gross domestic product in 1965 to 17.8% in 2015.
Politicians and the media both influence Americans’ perceptions about health care; however,
they are not the primary reason why Americans are concerned. The new health care system will
change the health care access and availability, but will not necessarily be offering any free
services to Americans.
Dif: cognitive level: understand (comprehension)
2. A nurse has begun to lobby with politicians for changes to the health care system. Why is
this involvement important?
A. Nurses, as central characters in several popular tv series, are currently very visible in
American media.
B. Nurses are primarily responusibsle fonr mtanagingothe various units in our health care
system.
C. Nurses are the largest segment of health care providers.
D. Nurses are the only group that is employed both inside and outside of hospitals.