Includes bibiliographical references and index.

Contents: The role and context of community health nursing practice: Responsibilities for care in community health nursing -- Origins and future of community health nursing -- The U. S. Health care system -- Legal context for community health nursing practice -- Financing of health care: context for community health nursing -- The relevance of culture and values for community health nursing -- Family as client: The home visit: opening doors for family health -- A Family perspective in community health nursing -- The nursing process and families -- Multiproblem -- Community ass client: Epidemiology: Unraveling the mysteries of disease and health -- Community assessment -- Community planning and intervention -- Evaluation of nursing care with communities -- Nursing in a disaster -- Tools for practice: Health promotion and risk reduction in the community -- Screening and referral -- Health teaching -- Contemporary problems in community health nursing: Communicable diseases -- Violence: a social and family problem -- Common addictions -- Teenage pregnancy -- Homelessness in America -- Environmental issues: at home, work and in the community -- Support for special populations: Rehabilitation clients in the community -- Children in the community -- Elderly persons in the community -- Settings for community health nursing practice: School health -- Home health care -- Local health departments -- Rural health --