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Community ANS✔✔ o Collection of people interacting with one another
because of common history, language, values, geography, common
interests, characteristics, or goals. Includes social institutions (ex// schools,
social services).
o Community as the client: a group / population of people as the focus of
the nursing service.
o Three features of a community: 1) physical location 2) population 3) social
system
o Characterizing health of community: 1) status/people 2) structure 3)
process
Status/people: morbidity & mortality data (identifies physical, emotional,
and social determinants of health)
Structure: services & resources (community associations, groups,
organizations)
Process: community's ability to function effectively
Community Health ANS✔✔ Focuses on groups who know each other &
interact to share a common langauge, history, and culture.
o Viewed as more than the absence of disease. Four goals for health of the
nation: longer lives, health equity, social/physical environments that
promote health, promote healthy behaviors.
o Competent community can: collaborate effectively in identifying
community needs & problems, achieve a working consensus on goals &
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priorities, agree on ways & means to implement agreed upon goals,
collaborate effectively to take required actions
o Focuses on groups who know each other & interact to share a common
language, history, and culture. Ex// feeling of community survey.
Community health broadens the scope, going beyond traditional health and
healthcare needs to factor in the social determinants of health, such as
education, employment, public safety and more. In our work with
communities, we know factors such as access to information and services
can have a direct impact on community health
Population ANS✔✔ A statistical aggregate or subgroup with a similar
characteristic (may or may not interact). Ex// an interest group, a focus
group, singular focused group with one or more characteristics in common.
--> Share one characteristic in common, and are usually large groups
o Not of a specialized aggregate, but of all the diverse people who live
within the boundaries of the community.
o Healthy community has leaders who are aware of the population's
characteristics, know its various needs, and respond to those needs.
o Population variables: size, density, composition, rate of growth, cultural
characteristics, social class structure, mobility, poverty level, education
level, unemployment rate.
o Share one characteristic in common, and are usually large groups. Ex//
population of people who can say good morning in more than one language.
Population Health ANS✔✔ Focuses on groups (aggregates) who have at
least one characteristic in common (ex// diabetes).
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o Health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of
such outcomes within a group. Focus: understand determinants of health of
populations. Overall goal of population health approach is to maintain &
improve health of entire population & reduce inequalities in health between
population groups.
o Can be defined in a traditional sense (geographic area, states, countries)
o Main factors that determine population health: social & economic health,
health behaviors, clinical care, environmental factors
When talking about population health, we are describing health and
healthcare outcomes that impact a specific group of people being tracked
and managed for specified health conditions.
Public Health ANS✔✔ Represents all the infrastructure to make us healthy
(water, air, vehicles) & free access to public health facilities (clinics etc).
Ex// hygiene, public transit, bike racks, no smoking signs, clean water,
ambulances
o Three primary functions: assessment, policy development, assurance
--> Foundational & direct the work of all community health nurses (CHN)
o Applied at three levels of service: to individuals, to families, and to
communities.
o Ten essential services of public health: monitor health status (identify
community health problems), diagnose and investigate health problems,
inform/educate/empower people about health issues, mobilize community
partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems, develop
policies & plans that support individual & community health efforts, enforce
laws & regulations that protect safety, link people to services, ensure
competent workforces, evaluate effectiveness and quality of services,
research new solutions to health problems