Community Health Nursing [Hardcover]

Throughout the history, community health nurses have been an integral part of the health promotion and disease prevention activities as well as health care reform. With the evolving health care system and challenges that clients face in the community, the importance and necessity of community health nurses continues. Community health nursing is a concise yet comprehensive text designed for nursing students and practicing nurses to provide a foundation in community health nursing practice. The text builds on knowledge and skills common to all nurses, including nursing process, nursing theory, communication process, human development, and nursing care of individuals. It provides for the reader to critically apply the knowledge presented and to learn how to seek answers to question that arise. About The Author:- K. Madhav Naidu was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and completed his graduation in Medicine from Moscow state University; Russia. He practiced Public Health with an emphasis on international health. Beginning in 2002, he spent three years in Russia as Public Health Advisor. He coordinated projects to improve child survival and immunization rates among rural people in the outlying provinces. He also served as a consultant for UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank in developing programs for training traditional birth attendants, in community mental health, village health workers, and rural doctors. He has practiced in diverse settings, such as state hospitals, school services, child health and mental health. he has also taught at bachelor’s level. Contents:- Contents, Preface viii, 1. Introduction 1, 2. Family Health Care & Services 21, Family as a Unit of Community Health Service, Factors Influencing, Family Health, Nursing Process in Family, Principles and Technique, of Home Visits, Working with Families in Prevention of Disease and, Promotion of Health, Family Health Records, References, 3. Health Administration in India 43, National Health Policy, Health Services Organization, National Planning, Five Year Plans, Social Welfare Services, Communicable Disease, Problems, National Family Welfare Programme, 20-Point Programme, Qualities and Functions of a Public Health Nurse, Family Health, Services, Maternal and Child Health, Home Visiting, Nutritional, Problems, References, 4. Determinants of Health 75, Environment, Acts Regulating the Environment, Pathogenic Factors, Food, Acts Regulating Food Hygiene, Socio-cultural Determinants, Life Style, Hygiene, Activities of Daily Living, Financial Management, References, 5. Epidemiology 127, History, Concept of Epidemic Process, Dynamics of Disease, Transmission, Morbidity and Mortality, Prevention, Methods of, Epidemiology, References, 6. Epidemiology and Management, of Common Communicable Diseases 141, Intestinal Infections, Arthropod Infections, Viral Infections, Bacterial, Infections, Rickettsial Diseases, Parasitic Zoonoses, Surface, Infections, References, vi Community Health Nursing, 7. Epidemiology and Management, of Non-Communicable Diseases 263, Nutrition, Malnutrition, Over Nutrition, Nutritional Deficiencies, Anaemia, Hypertension, Stroke, Rheumatic Heart Disease, Coronary, Heart Disease, Cancer, Diabetes Mellitus, Blindness, HIV, References, 8. Population and its Control 323, Population Explosion, Reasons for Population Explosion, Effects of, Population Explosion, Measures to Control Population, References, Bibliography 339, Index 345 The Title 'Community Health Nursing written/authored/edited by K. Madhav Naidu', published in the year 2013. The ISBN 9789380222011 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 344 (Pages). The publisher of this title is GenNext Publication. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is HEALTH / HOME SCIENCE. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-