Public & community health nursing practice : a population-based approach / Demetrius James Porche.

Public health practice focuses on the prevention of disease and disability as a means of promoting the health of communities and the individuals who make up those communities. This text presents a summary of core practices for assessment, assurance and policy development to achieve this goal.

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Main Author: Porche, Demetrius James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Population-based public health practice
  • The public health system
  • Epidemiology: population-based data
  • Behavioral health theories
  • Behavioral assessment
  • Public health organizational assessment
  • Environmental health assessment
  • Community assessment and analysis
  • Cultural competence
  • Community development
  • Community
  • Public
  • Program monitoring and evaluation
  • Performance measurement and improvement
  • Public health research
  • Evidence-based public health practice
  • Public health-community health leadership
  • Communication, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict
  • Public health-community health
  • Fiscal and human resource management
  • Public health informatics
  • Public health policy and politics
  • The development of public health policy
  • Public health policy formulation, implementation, and modification
  • Public health policy analysis and evaluation
  • Public health law and the legal system
  • The scope of public health law
  • Public health ethics.