Based on: Public health nursing: population-centered health care in the community / [edited by] Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster. 8th ed. c2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Perspectives in health care delivery and nursing: Community-oriented nursing and community-based nursing -- The history of public health and public and community health nursing -- The U.S. health and public health care systems -- Influences on health care delivery and nursing: Ethics in community health nursing practice -- Cultural influences in nursing community health -- Environmental health -- Government, the law and policy activism -- Economic influences -- Conceptual frameworks applied to nursing practice in the community: Epidemiological applications -- Evidence-based practice -- Using health education and groups in the community -- Issues and approaches in health care populations: Community assessment and evaluation -- Case management -- Disaster management -- Surveillance and outbreak investigation -- Program management -- Managing quality and safety -- Issues and approaches in family and individual health care: Family development and family nursing assessment -- Family health risks -- Health risks across the life span -- Vulnerability: predisposing factors: Vulnerability and vulnerable populations: an overview -- Rural health and migrant health -- Poverty, homelessness, mental illness and teen pregnancy -- Alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems in the community -- Violence and human abuse -- Infectious disease prevention and control -- HIV infection, hepatitis, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted diseases --Nursing practice in the community: roles and functions: Nursing practice at the local, state and national levels in public health -- The faith community nurse -- The nurse in home health and hospice -- The nurse in the schools -- The nurse in occupational health --