Dedication
About the Authors
Contributors
Contributors to Chapter Special Features
Reviewers
Foreword
Preface
Part I: Community-Focus Nursing
Unit I: The Context
Chapter 1: Opening the Door to Health Care in the Community
Chapter 2: Community and Population Health: Assessment and Intervention
Chapter 3: History of Community Health and Public Health Nursing
Chapter 4: Epidemiology of Health and Illness
Chapter 5: Health Care Systems in Transition
Chapter 6: Managed Care
Unit II: Influences on a Community’s Health
Chapter 7: Economics of Health Care
Chapter 8: Politics and the Law
Chapter 9: Health Policy
Chapter 10: Transcultural Nursing care in the Community
Chapter 11: Ethics and Health
Chapter 12: Environmental Health
Unit III: Care of Communities and Populations
Chapter 13: Health Promotion and Wellness
Chapter 14: Nursing Informatics in Community Health Nursing Practice
Chapter 15: Health Education in the Community
Chapter 16: Complementary and Holistic Health
Chapter 17: Global Health
Chapter 18: Groups in the Community
Unit IV: Common Community Health Problems
Chapter 19: Communicable Disease
Chapter 20: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
Chapter 21: Substance Abuse as a Community Health Problem
Chapter 22: Violence and Nursing’s Response
Chapter 23: Chronic Illness
Chapter 24: Disasters in the Community
Unit V: Vulnerable Populations
Chapter 25: Vulnerability: An Overview
Chapter 26: Urban and Homeless Populations
Chapter 27: Rural Populations
Chapter 28: Adolescent Pregnancy
Chapter 29: Disabilities and Health
Part Two: Community Based-Nursing Care
Unit VI: Care of Families
Chapter 30: Foundations of Family Care
Chapter 31: Caring for the Family in Health and Illness
Unit VII: Care of Individuals
Chapter 32: Women’s Health
Chapter 33: Men’s Health
Chapter 34: Children’s Health
Chapter 35: Elder Health
Chapter 36: Mental Health in the Community
Part Three Diversity in Community Health Nursing Roles
Unit VIII: Community Health Nurse Roles
Chapter 37: Public health Nursing: Pioneers of Health Care Reform
Chapter 38: The Home Visit
Chapter 39: Home Health and Hospice Nursing
Chapter 40: School health Nursing
Chapter 41: Occupational Health Nursing
Chapter 42: Advanced Nursing Practice in the Community
Chapter 43: Health Ministries: Health and Faith Communities
