Chapter 1 – Community- and Prevention-
Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health 2025
Objectives - ANSWER ✔✨---1. State the mission and core functions of public health, the essential
public health services, and the quality performance standards program in public health.
2. Describe specialization in public health nursing and other nurse roles in the community and the
practice goals of each.
3. Describe what is meant by population health.
4. Identify barriers to the practice of community and prevention-oriented, population-focused practice.
5. Describe the importance of the social determinants of health to the health of a population.
6. State key opportunities for nurses in public health practice.
Recently increased attention to public health - ANSWER ✔✨---•COVID-19 Pandemic
,•Concern with cost of medical care & the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010
•US health & life expectancy worse than other high-income countries
focus of this chapter- - ANSWER ✔✨---•Public health as a broad field of practice
•Population health
•Public health nursing
Public health as a broad field of practice - ANSWER ✔✨---PUBLIC HEALTH as a broad field of
practice which is the backbone of the infrastructure supporting the health of a country, state, province,
city, town or community.
POPULATION HEALTH: - ANSWER ✔✨----which can be viewed as a particularly important set of
analytical strategies and approaches first used in public health to describe, analyze, and mobilize efforts
to improve health in community-based populations and now being used in initiatives to improve
outcomes of clinical populations
Public health nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Public health nursing and emerging opportunities for nurses
practicing in a variety of settings to be engaged in community-based population focused efforts to
improve the health of populations.
Focus of this chapter: - ANSWER ✔✨---This is a crucial time for public health nursing, a time of
opportunity and challenge.
-The following discussion explains why those who practice community and prevention-oriented,
population-focused nursing will be in a very strong position to affect the health of populations and
decisions about how scarce resources will be used.
Public Health Practice definition: - ANSWER ✔✨---"what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
, -healthy 2030 goals focuses on improving health of people in general
public health practice mission: - ANSWER ✔✨---•"to generate organized community efforts to
address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995)
•Accomplished by many groups (public & private) & individuals, with special function of the government
more about the mission w public health practice - ANSWER ✔✨---In 1988 the Institute of Medicine
published a report on the future of public health, which is now seen as a classic and influential
document. In the report, public health was defined as "what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
The committee stated that the mission of public health was "to generate organized community efforts
to address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995).
It was clearly noted that the mission could be accomplished by many groups, public and private, and by
individuals. However, the government has a special function "to see to it that vital elements are in place
and that the mission is adequately addressed" (IOM, 1988 p. 7).
the goal overall for nurses is to - ANSWER ✔✨---help our pts & our community to get healthy &
live longer
public health practice benefits: - ANSWER ✔✨---•Safer and cleaner environments and food/water.
•Dramatic increase in life expectancy.
•Decreased number of deaths from heart disease and stroke.
•Declines in death rates of adults and children.
Oriented Practice to Improve Population
Health 2025
Objectives - ANSWER ✔✨---1. State the mission and core functions of public health, the essential
public health services, and the quality performance standards program in public health.
2. Describe specialization in public health nursing and other nurse roles in the community and the
practice goals of each.
3. Describe what is meant by population health.
4. Identify barriers to the practice of community and prevention-oriented, population-focused practice.
5. Describe the importance of the social determinants of health to the health of a population.
6. State key opportunities for nurses in public health practice.
Recently increased attention to public health - ANSWER ✔✨---•COVID-19 Pandemic
,•Concern with cost of medical care & the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010
•US health & life expectancy worse than other high-income countries
focus of this chapter- - ANSWER ✔✨---•Public health as a broad field of practice
•Population health
•Public health nursing
Public health as a broad field of practice - ANSWER ✔✨---PUBLIC HEALTH as a broad field of
practice which is the backbone of the infrastructure supporting the health of a country, state, province,
city, town or community.
POPULATION HEALTH: - ANSWER ✔✨----which can be viewed as a particularly important set of
analytical strategies and approaches first used in public health to describe, analyze, and mobilize efforts
to improve health in community-based populations and now being used in initiatives to improve
outcomes of clinical populations
Public health nursing - ANSWER ✔✨---Public health nursing and emerging opportunities for nurses
practicing in a variety of settings to be engaged in community-based population focused efforts to
improve the health of populations.
Focus of this chapter: - ANSWER ✔✨---This is a crucial time for public health nursing, a time of
opportunity and challenge.
-The following discussion explains why those who practice community and prevention-oriented,
population-focused nursing will be in a very strong position to affect the health of populations and
decisions about how scarce resources will be used.
Public Health Practice definition: - ANSWER ✔✨---"what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
, -healthy 2030 goals focuses on improving health of people in general
public health practice mission: - ANSWER ✔✨---•"to generate organized community efforts to
address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995)
•Accomplished by many groups (public & private) & individuals, with special function of the government
more about the mission w public health practice - ANSWER ✔✨---In 1988 the Institute of Medicine
published a report on the future of public health, which is now seen as a classic and influential
document. In the report, public health was defined as "what we, as a society, do collectively to assure
the conditions in which people can be healthy" (IOM. 1988, p. 1).
The committee stated that the mission of public health was "to generate organized community efforts
to address the public interest in health by applying scientific and technical knowledge to prevent disease
and promote health" (IOM, 1988 p. 1; Williams, 1995).
It was clearly noted that the mission could be accomplished by many groups, public and private, and by
individuals. However, the government has a special function "to see to it that vital elements are in place
and that the mission is adequately addressed" (IOM, 1988 p. 7).
the goal overall for nurses is to - ANSWER ✔✨---help our pts & our community to get healthy &
live longer
public health practice benefits: - ANSWER ✔✨---•Safer and cleaner environments and food/water.
•Dramatic increase in life expectancy.
•Decreased number of deaths from heart disease and stroke.
•Declines in death rates of adults and children.
