Includes index.

Contents: Historical and current perspectives on community health nursing: Historical perspectives on community health nursing -- Defining community health nursing -- The community and its health, welfare, and environmental resources: Community as client -- United States health and welfare legislation and services -- Organization of United States health and welfare resources -- The nurse and environmental health -- Family-centered nursing approach to community health nursing practice: Family assessment and cultural diversity: Tools and concepts -- Foundations for family intervention: Families under stress -- Use of family-centered nursing process with culturally diverse clients -- Continuity of care through discharge planning and the referral process -- Community assessment, diagnosis, organization, and health-planning activities: Concepts and strategies of epidemiology -- Community assessment and diagnosis -- Community organization and health planning for aggregates at risk -- Meeting the needs of aggregates at risk across the life span: Needs and services of children from birth to 5 years -- Planning health services for the school-age child -- Health promotion concerns of adult men and women -- Occupational health nursing -- The adult who is handicapped -- The well elderly: Needs and services -- Clients with long-term care needs: Home health, hospice, and other services -- Aggregate-focused interventions: Group work clinics, and nursing centers -- Management of professional commitments: Utilizing management concepts in community health nursing -- Quality processes in community health nursing practice -- Challenges for the future.