Community Health Nursing in Context Community Assessment and Population Health Problems

1. Compare and contrast the definitions of health from a public
health nursing perspective and list and explain the, three levels of
prevention and give an example of each one.

2. Mention and discuss community/public health nursing interventions as explained by the intervention Wheel.

3.
Describe and explain the process of conducting a community health
assessment and identify and discuss the uses for epidemiological data at
each step of the nursing process.

4. Compare the application

of the public health principles to the nation’s major health problems at

the turn of the twentieth century (i.e. acute disease) with the

beginning of the twenty-first century (i.e. chronic disease) and mention

and discuss the major contemporary issues facing community/public

health nursing, and trace the historical roots to the present.

As stated in the syllabus present your assignment in an APA

format word document, Arial 12 font attached to the forum in the

discussion tab of the blackboard titled “Week 1 discussion questions”

and the SafeAssign exercise in the assignment tab of the blackboard

which is a mandatory requirement. A minimum of 2 evidence-based references (besides the class textbook) no older than 5 years must be used.

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