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Nursing for Public Health

Population Based Care

  • 1st Edition - October 25, 2000
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Pauline M. Craig, Grace Lindsay
  • Language: English

WHO and UK government initiatives have been pushing primary care practitioners to closely consider the wider health needs of populations. This book directly addresses issues of… Read more

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WHO and UK government initiatives have been pushing primary care practitioners to closely consider the wider health needs of populations. This book directly addresses issues of everyday importance to practitioners, and covers core elements of specialist courses for post-graduate students.

The book has 14 chapters, split into three sections :
Core elements of Public Health
Nursing Elements of Public Health
Policy Issues in Public Health
Each chapter has a coherent structure of theory, application and role in practice. Practical or case examples are used and further reading offered. Subject specialists have written specific chapters such as health economics and informatics.

Key features

  • Links to specialist courses therefore will have a sound post-registration market.
    • This is the first comprehensive text on public health at the level of post-registration
  • Grace Lindsay has an increasingly prominent profile in the field of public health.

    • Readership

    Public health nurses, health educators, community managers, commissioners and planners

    Table of contents

    The nursing contribution to public health. Applications of epidemiology in planning for health. Economic evaluation. Information systems for public health nursing. Introducing the social model of health. Health of the population. Nursing for the community: assessing and meeting individual and population health need. Community development as a strategy for public health. Communicable diseases. Screening as a disease prevention strategy. Public health in primary care. Health outcome measurement. Health-care policy making

    Product details

    • Edition: 1
    • Latest edition
    • Published: January 12, 2001
    • Language: English

    About the authors

    PC

    Pauline M. Craig

    Affiliations and expertise
    Research Fellow, Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

    GL

    Grace Lindsay

    Affiliations and expertise
    Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK