Community and public health nursing : evidence for practice / Rosanna F. DeMarco and Judith Healey-Walsh

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. The Context of community and public health nursing -- Chapter 1 : Public health nursing : present, past and future -- Chapter 2 : Public health system -- Chapter 3 : Health policy, poilitics and reform -- Chpater 4 : Global health : a community perspective -- Part two. Evidence-based practice and population health -- Chapter 5 : Frameworks for health promotion, disease prevention and risk reduction -- Chapter 6 : Epidemiology -- Chapter 7 : Describing health conditions : understanding and using rates -- Chapter 8 : Gathering evidence for public health practice -- Part three. Implementing nursing practice in community settings -- Chapter 9 : Planning for community change -- Chpater 10 : Cultural competence : awareness, sensitivity and respect -- Chapter 11 : Community assessment -- Chapter 12 : Care management, case management, and home healthcare -- Chapter 13 : Family assessment -- Part four. Challenges in community and public health nursing -- Chapter 14 : Risk of infectious and communicable diseases -- Chapter 15 : Emerging infectious diseases -- Chapter 16 : Violence and abuse -- Chapter 17 : Substance use -- Chapter 18 : Underserved populations -- Chapter 19 : Environmental health -- Chapter 20 : Community preparedness : disaster and terrorism -- Part five. Specialty practice -- Chapter 21 : Community mental health -- Chapter 22 : School health -- Chapter 23 : Faith-oriented communities and health ministries in faith communities -- Chapter 24 : Palliative and end-of-line care -- Chapter 25 : Occupational health

"We are experiencing extraordinary changes in healthcare in this new century; changes that call upon the most creative, analytical, and innovative skills available. While the world has the resources to reduce healthcare disparities and eliminate the differences in healthcare and health outcomes that exist between various population groups across the globe, accomplishing this is a long-term and complicated task. Improvement in the social structure within which people live, and a redistribution of resources so that all people have access to the basic necessities of life, require an unprecedented global consciousness and political commitment"