Full Description
This book introduces the reader to the various philosophical views on community nursing and health care and illustrates how nursing science can be applied to community health care. It discusses demography and epidemiology and shows how these aspects may be applied in assessing the health needs of the community as a whole. Planning and marketing are presented as essential components in delivering quality health care.
Contents
Philosophical views on community nursing and community health care; the scientific method of nursing (nursing process) applied in community nursing; some selected roles of the community nurse; demography; epidemiology in community health care; community assessment; aspects of health planning at primary health care level; indicators to monitor the progress towards the attainment of the goal of health for all by the year 2000; marketing community health services.
