Includes glossary, references and index.

Contents: Caring in community health nursing -- Historical development of community health nursing -- National and international health perspectives -- Health care delivery in the united states -- Health care system in the world -- Health care economics -- Philosophical and ethical perspectives -- Spiritual and cultural perspectives -- Environmental perspectives -- Caring communication and client teaching/learning -- Health promotion and disease prevention perspectives -- Integrative health care perspectives -- Population-focused practice -- Epidemiology -- Assessing the community -- Program planning implementation,and evaluation -- Quality management -- Power,politics,and public policy -- Varied roles of community health nursing -- Practice specialties in community health nursing -- Home visit -- Care of infants,children, and adolescents -- Care of young,middle,and older adult -- Framework for assessing families -- Family function and processes -- Communicable diseases -- Chronic illness -- Developmental disorders -- Mental health and illness -- Family and community violence -- Substance abuse -- Poverty -- Homelessness -- Rural health -- Appendix A: Community resources -- B:The friedman family assessment model (short form) -- C: Functional assessment -- D: Community assessment guide:the place,the people,and the social system -- E:Environmental assessmental:home safety for disabled or older adults -- F:Community health nursing service satisfaction questionnaire