Main description:

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