Table of Content

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the authors
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Contributors
• Contributor biographies
• Preface
• PART 1. Influencing Factors in Public Health Nursing and Population Health
• 1.  Public health foundations and population health
•     Public health practice: The foundation for healthy populations and communities
•     Public health nursing as a field of practice: An area of specialization
•     Public health nursing versus community-based nursing
•     Roles in public health nursing
•     Challenges for the future
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 2.  History of public health and public and community health nursing
•     Change and continuity
•     Public health during america’s colonial period across the new republic
•     Nightingale and the origins of trained nursing
•     America needs trained nurses
•     School nursing in America
•     The profession comes of age
•     Public health nursing in official health agencies and in world war I
•     Paying the bill for public health nurses
•     African American nurses in public health nursing
•     Between the two world wars: Economic depression and the rise of hospitals
•     Increasing federal action for the public’s health
•     World war II: Extension and retrenchment in public health nursing
•     The rise of chronic illness
•     Declining financial support for practice and professional organizations
•     Professional nursing education for public health nursing
•     New resources and new communities: The 1960s and nursing
•     Community organization and professional change
•     Public health nursing from the 1970s into the twenty-first century
•     Designing health care for the American people
•     Public health nursing today
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 3.  Public health, primary care, and primary health care systems
•     Health care in the United States
•     Forces stimulating change in the demand for health care
•     Current health care system in the United States
•     Organization of the health care system
•     Forces influencing changes in the health care system
•     Health care delivery reform efforts—United States
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 4.  Perspectives in global health care
•     Overview and historical perspective of global health
•     The role of population health
•     Primary health care
•     Nursing and global health
•     Major global health organizations
•     Global health and global development
•     Health care systems
•     Major global health problems and the burden of disease
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 5.  Economics of health care delivery
•     Public health and economics
•     Principles of economics—microeconomics and macroeconomics
•     Factors affecting resource allocation in health care
•     Primary prevention
•     The context of the U.S. health care system
• PART 2. Forces Affecting Nurses in the Delivery of Public and Population Health Care Delivery
• 6.  Environmental health
•     Introduction to environmental health
•     Healthy People 2020 objectives for environmental health
•     Historical context of environmental health and nursing
•     Social determinants of health and environmental justice
•     Human environmental exposures
•     Environmental health sciences
•     Climate change
•     Environmental health assessments
•     Environmental exposure by media
•     Right to know
•     Risk assessment
•     Vulnerable populations
•     Precautionary principle
•     Environmental health risk reduction
•     Risk communication
•     Governmental environmental protection
•     Policy and advocacy
•     Environmental justice and environmental health disparities
•     Environmental health threats associated with the health care industry: New opportunities for practice and advocacy
•     Referral resources
•     Roles for nurses in environmental health
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 7.  Application of ethics in the community
•     Brief history of ethics and bioethics: Relationship to nursing and public health
•     History
•     Ethical decision making
•     Ethical principles and theories as guides to ethical decision making
•     Principles of bioethics
•     Ethics and the core functions of population-centered nursing practice
•     Nursing code of ethics
•     Public health code of ethics
•     Advocacy and ethics
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 8.  Achieving cultural competence in community health nursing
•     Why cultural competence matters
•     Culture, race, and ethnicity
•     Impact of diversity on cultural competence
•     Social issues affecting culturally competent nursing care
•     Cultural competence in nursing
•     Culturally competent nursing assessment of clients
•     Building culturally competent organizations
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 9.  Public health policy
•     Definitions
•     Governmental role in U.S. health care
•     Healthy People 2020: an example of national health policy guidance
•     Organizations and agencies that influence health
•     Impact of government health functions and structures on nursing
•     The law and health care
•     Laws specific to nursing practice
•     Legal issues affecting health care practices
•     The nurse’s role in the policy process
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 10.  Evidence-based practice
•     Definition of evidence-based practice
•     History of evidence-based practice
•     Paradigm shift in use of evidence-based practice
•     Types of evidence
•     Factors leading to change
•     Barriers to evidence-based practice
•     Steps in the evidence-based practice process
•     Approaches to implementing evidence-based practice
•     Current perspectives
•     Healthy People 2020 objectives
•     Example of application of evidence-based practice to public health nursing
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• PART 3. Conceptual and Scientific Frameworks Applied to Nursing Practice
• 11.  Population-based public health nursing practice: The intervention wheel
•     The intervention wheel origins and evolution
•     Assumptions underlying the intervention wheel
•     Using the intervention wheel in public health nursing practice
•     Components of the model
•     Adoption of the intervention wheel in practice, education, and management
•     Healthy people 2020
•     Applying the nursing process in public health nursing practice
•     Applying the nursing process at the individual/family level
•     Applying the public health nursing process to the community level of practice scenario
•     Applying the public health nursing process to a systems level of practice scenario
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
•     References
• 12.  Genomics in public health nursing
•     The human genome and its transforming effect on public health
•     A brief history of the science
•     DNA and its relationship to genomics and genetics
•     Current issues in genomics and genetics
•     Personalized health care
•     Genomic competencies for nurses
•     Incorporating genomics and genetics into public health nursing practice
•     Application and practice: Mapping out a pedigree
•     The future
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
•     References
• 13.  Epidemiology
•     Definitions of health and public health
•     Definitions and descriptions of epidemiology
•     Historical perspectives
•     Basic concepts in epidemiology
•     Screening
•     Surveillance
•     Basic methods in epidemiology
•     Descriptive epidemiology
•     Analytic epidemiology
•     Experimental studies
•     Causality
•     Applications of epidemiology in nursing
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 14.  Infectious disease prevention and control
• 15.  Communicable and infectious disease risks
•     References
• PART 4. Community Level Interventions
• 16.  Promoting healthy communities
• 17.  Community as client: Assessment and analysis
•     References
• 18.  Building a culture of health to influence health equity within communities
• 19.  Health education principles applied in communities, groups, families, and individuals for healthy change
• PART 5. Issues and Approaches in Population-Centered Nursing
• 20.  The nurse-led health center: A model for community nursing practice
• 21.  Public health nursing practice and the disaster management cycle
•     Defining disasters
•     Disaster facts
•     National disaster planning and response: A health-focused overview
•     Healthy People 2020 objectives
•     The disaster management cycle and nursing role
•     Future of disaster management
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 22.  Public health surveillance and outbreak investigation
•     Disease surveillance
•    
• Notifiable diseases
•     Case definitions
•     Types of surveillance systems
•     The investigation
•     Displaying of data
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 23.  Program management
•     Definitions and goals
•     Historical overview of health care planning and evaluation
•     Benefits of program planning
•     Assessment of need
•     Planning process
•     Program evaluation
•     Advanced planning methods and evaluation models
•     Program funding
•     Practice application
•     Key points
•     Clinical decision-making activities
•     Additional resources
• 24.  Quality management
•     Definitions and goals
•     Historical development
•     Approaches to quality improvement