Section 1: Concepts of community, health and nursing Section 2: Determinants of health Section 3: Concepts of epidemiology Section 4: Communicable diseases Section 5: Non-communicable diseases Section 6: Demography Section 7: Concepts of community health and community health nursing Section 8: Health planning, policies and problems Section 9: Delivery of community health services Section 10: Components of health services Section 11: Community health nursing approaches Section 12: Roles and responsibilities of community health nursing personnel Section 13: Job responsibilities of community health nursing personnel Section 14: Health and social issues Section 15: National health programs Section 16: Health agencies

Community & Public Health Nursing is designed to provide students a basic grounding in public health nursing principles while emphasizing aggregate-level nursing. While weaving in meaningful examples from practice throughout the text, the authors coach students on how to navigate between conceptualizing about a population-focus while also continuing to advocate and care for individuals, families, and aggregates. This student-friendly, highly illustrated text engages students, and by doing so, eases students into readily applying public health principles along with evidence-based practice, nursing science, and skills that promote health, prevent disease, as well as protect at-risk populations! What the 8th edition of this text does best is assist students in broadening the base of their knowledge and skills that they can employ in both the community and acute care settings, while the newly enhanced ancillary resources offers interactive tools that allow students of all learning styles to master public health nursing.

The book has been developed to provide students with the knowledge and skills in the area of community health nursing. Care has been taken to cover all the contents in this revised edition as required by the respective Councils and Boards of Nursing and Universities. The text also presents the contents that represent the most accurate, current and clinically relevant information that are written in clearly and easily read manner.

Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 10th Edition delivers an engaging introduction to the principles of public health nursing and employs a highly visual, student-friendly approach to guide students in developing the understanding and skills to confidently promote health, foster disease prevention, and protect at-risk populations — including older adults, homeless populations, veterans, refugees, and the LGBTQ community — whether practicing in acute care or community and public health settings. Extensively revised and featuring a wealth of real-world examples, this updated edition reflects today’s most prominent public health issues and empowers students to provide the most effective nursing care wherever they may choose to practice.