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With new chapters on disaster management, primary health care, and new technologies used in public health nursing and public health education, this newly revised edition of Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care is a must-have resource for students interested in public health nursing and education.*Addresses the relevance of historical evidence in defining public health*Explores the use of technology in public health*Provides the meaning of social epidemiology*Offers an innovative assessment tool that uses Healthy People 2020 as its framework*Focuses on 17 intervention strategies identified in the Population-Based Public Health Nursing Practice Intervention Wheel *Examines how these interventions can be applied to the three levels of practice: individual/family, community, and systems*Accompanied by a forthcoming Companion Website packed with online learning tools and activities to help engage students and further their understanding of the material in the text
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Truglio-Londrigan and Lewenson (nursing, Pace U.) offer undergraduate and graduate nursing students and practitioners an 18-chapter textbook on public health nursing. Public health nurses mainly from the US address the definition of public health and public health nursing and the ideas of health promotion and disease prevention; the history of the field; assessment; the fundamentals of epidemiology and social epidemiology; evidence-based practice; informatics; cultural considerations; healthcare policy and politics; intervention strategies, such as outreach, screening, surveillance, referral, follow-up, case management, counseling, consultation, health teaching, collaboration, coalition building, community organizing, advocacy, social marketing, and policy development and enforcement; epidemics and their history; emergency preparedness; and nursing education. This edition has new chapters on disaster management, primary health care, and new technologies, and the public health nursing assessment tool has been revised to reflect Healthy People 2020. A companion website has study aids, learning activities, glossaries, animated flashcards, puzzles, and other resources. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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