Definitions of Community health – This book covers the entire syllabus of “Community Health Nursing” prescribed by the Universities of Bangladesh- for Basic and diploma nursing students. We tried to accommodate latest information and topics.
This book is examination friendly setup according to the teachers’ lectures and examination’s questions. At the end of the book previous university questions are given. We hope in touch with the book students’ knowledge will be upgraded and flourished. The unique way of presentation may make your reading of the book a pleasurable experience.
Definitions of Community health
Definitions of Community health
Community health is a major field of study within the medical and clinical sciences which focuses on the maintenance, protection and improvement of the health status of population groups and communities as opposed to the health of individual patients.
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Community health is defined as meeting collective needs by identifying problems and managing interactions within the community and larger society.
Characteristics of community health:
- It covers all the aspects of public health, preventive medicine and social medicine.
- It is a major field of study.
- It focuses on meeting collective needs by identifying problems.
- Its focuses on curative, preventive, promotive and rehabilitative services.
- It focuses to promote physical and social well-being of the people.
- It propose to improvement of the health status of population groups and communities.
- Essential Community participation present.
Community Health Nursing:
Community health nursing is nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community. The goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health.
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Community health nursing as a field nursing combines nursing practice with public health science to formulate a community-oriented & population-focused practice. It “synthesizes the knowledge from the public health sciences and professional nursing theories” to improve the health of communities and vulnerable populations.
Characteristics of community health nursing:
1. It is a field of nursing;
2. It combines public health with nursing:
3. It is population focused;
4. It emphasizes prevention, health promotion and wellness;
5. It promotes client responsibilities and self-care;
6. It uses aggregate measurement and analysis;
7. It uses principles of organizational theory; and
8. It involves inter professional collaboration.
Significance of community health nursing:
1. Direct responsible for the community to maintain the community health.
2. Community health nursing offers unique challenge & opportunities of expanding nursing’s focus from the individual & family to encompass communities, and the opportunity to impact the health status of populations.
3. Determining the needs of populations at risk & the opportunity for designing interventions to address their needs.
4. Community health nursing is most importantly population focused.
Community nursing is concerned with the interchange between population groups & their total environment.
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