Community and Prevention-Oriented Practice
to Improve Population Health – Complete
Guide 2025
Community-Based Nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Nurse's focus on *illness care* of individuals and
families across the lifespan
- Aims to manage acute and chronic conditions in the community
- Practice is family-centered illness care
- Nurses are most likely to provide direct services
*Examples*
- Hospice
- Home health care
- School nursing
Community-Oriented Nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Primary focus is on the community or on
populations
- Care of individuals, families, or groups in the community
*Goal*: preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
, *Purpose*: to provide healthcare to promote quality of life
Public health nursing
Public Health - ANSWER ✔✨---Scientific discipline - includes the study of epidemiology, statistics,
and assessment
- Considers behavioral, cultural, and environmental factors with programmed planning and policy
development
*Mission*: to generate an organized community effort to address the public interest on health by
applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Working with *populations*
Importance of Public Health - ANSWER ✔✨---Health is influenced by
- 80% of premature death is due to LIFESTYLE
- 20% of human biology
- 20% environmental
- 10% inadequacies in health care
Life expectancy changes
- Smoking cessation
- Vaccinations
- Sanitation, handwashing
Prevention of early death
- 70% is related to health care promotion and disease prevention
- Only 10% is prevented by medical intervention/care
to Improve Population Health – Complete
Guide 2025
Community-Based Nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Nurse's focus on *illness care* of individuals and
families across the lifespan
- Aims to manage acute and chronic conditions in the community
- Practice is family-centered illness care
- Nurses are most likely to provide direct services
*Examples*
- Hospice
- Home health care
- School nursing
Community-Oriented Nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Primary focus is on the community or on
populations
- Care of individuals, families, or groups in the community
*Goal*: preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
, *Purpose*: to provide healthcare to promote quality of life
Public health nursing
Public Health - ANSWER ✔✨---Scientific discipline - includes the study of epidemiology, statistics,
and assessment
- Considers behavioral, cultural, and environmental factors with programmed planning and policy
development
*Mission*: to generate an organized community effort to address the public interest on health by
applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease and promote health
Working with *populations*
Importance of Public Health - ANSWER ✔✨---Health is influenced by
- 80% of premature death is due to LIFESTYLE
- 20% of human biology
- 20% environmental
- 10% inadequacies in health care
Life expectancy changes
- Smoking cessation
- Vaccinations
- Sanitation, handwashing
Prevention of early death
- 70% is related to health care promotion and disease prevention
- Only 10% is prevented by medical intervention/care
