Summary Community health

COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSING

, COURSE: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSIN
Broad Objective
1. By the end of this course the learner will be able to participate in primar
health care activities in the community.
Specific Objectives
By the end of this unit, the student should be able to :
2. Describe various concepts in community health nursing.
3. Describe various community subsystems
4. Describe Primary Health Care PHC and Community Strategy
5. Describe various concepts in Maternal and Child Health MCH
6. Describe the levels of disease prevention
7. Describe immunization
8. Describe environmental health

,COURSE: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSIN
COURSE CONTENT
1. INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
• Define various concepts in community health nursing: Community,
health, community health and community health nursing.
• Characteristics of community health nursing
• Functions of community
• Characteristics of a healthy community
• Aims of community health nursing.

, 2. COMMUNITY SUBSYSTEMS
The various component of community subsystems to include:
• Socio-cultural systems
• Health system
• Education system
• Political system
• Environmental system
• Religious system
• Economic system
• Communication and transport system