Public health nursing : population-centered health care in the community / [edited by] Marcia Stanhope, Jeanette Lancaster.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perspectives in health care and population-centered nursing -- Population-focused practice: the foundation of specialization in public health nursing -- History of public health and public and community health nursing -- Public health and primary health care systems and healthcare transformation -- Perspectives in global health care -- Influences on health care delivery and population-centered nursing -- Economics of health care delivery -- Application of ethics in the community -- Cultural diversity in the community -- Public health policy -- Conceptual and scientific frameworks applied to population-centered nursing practice -- Population-based public health nursing practice: the intervention wheel -- Environmental health -- Genomics in public health nursing -- Epidemiology -- Infectious disease prevention and control -- Communicable and infectious disease risks -- Evidence-based practice -- Using health education and groups to promote health -- Promoting healthy communities using multilevel participatory strategies -- Issues and approaches in population-centered nursing -- Community as client: assessment and analysis -- Population-centered nursing in rural and urban environments -- Promoting health through healthy communities and cities -- Nursing center: a model for nursing practice in the community -- Case management -- Public health nursing and the disaster management cycle -- Public health surveillance and outbreak investigation -- Program management-- Quality management -- Health promotion with target populations across the life span -- Family development and family nursing assessment -- Family health risks -- Child and adolescent health -- Major health issues and chronic disease management of adults across the life span -- Special needs populations -- Vulnerability: issues for the twenty-first century -- Vulnerability and vulnerable populations: an overview -- Poverty and homelessness -- Migrant health issues -- Teen pregnancy -- Mental health issues -- Alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems -- Violence and human abuse -- Nurse roles and functions in the community -- Advanced practice nurse in the community -- Nurse leader in the community -- Nurse in home health and hospice -- Nurse in the schools -- Nurse in occupational health -- Forensic nursing in the community -- Nurse in the faith community -- Public health nursing at local, state, and national levels.