Community Health Nursing

PART I. COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING PERSPECTIVES: Chapter 1. Community Health Nursing: Caring in Practice. Chapter 2. Historical Development of Community Health Nursing. PART II. HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES: Chapter 3. Health Care Delivery in the United States. Chapter 4. Health Care Economics. PART III. FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING: Chapter 5. Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives. Chapter 6. Spiritual and Cultural Perspectives 7. Environmental Perspectives. Chapter 8. Caring Communication. Chapter 9. Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. PART IV. CARING IN ACTION: A POPULATION FOCUS: Chapter 10. Population-Focused Practice. Chapter 11. Epidemiology. Chapter 12. Assessing the Community. Chapter 13. Program Planning and Evaluation. Chapter 14. Community Health Nursing's Varied Roles. PART V. CARING IN ACTION: WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN THE COMMUNITY: Chapter 15. The Home Visit. Chapter 16. Care of Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Chapter 17. Care of Young, Middle, and Older Adults. Chapter 18. Frameworks for Assessing Families. Chapter 19. Family Functions and Processes. PART VI. CARING IN ACTION: WORKING WITH VULNERABLE POPUULATIONS: Chapter 20. Communicable Disease. Chapter 21. Chronic Illness. Chapter 22. Developmental Disabilities. Chapter 23. Mental Health and Illness. Chapter24. Family and Community Violence. Chapter 25. Substance Abuse. Chapter 26. Nutrition. Chapter 27. Homelessness. Chapter 28. Rural Health. PART VII. HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY: Chapter 29. Health Status: National and International Perspectives. Chapter 30. Health Care Delivery System Around the World. Chapter 31. Power, Politics and Public Policy. Chapter 32. Visions for the Future.