Public health nursing specialty that emerged in early 20th century to combat communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity
Primary health care universally accessible to individuals and families through their full participation at a cost the community can afford
Victorian order o...
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Public health nursing ✅specialty that emerged in early 20th century to combat
communicable disease, infant mortality, and childhood morbidity
Primary health care ✅universally accessible to individuals and families through their
full participation at a cost the community can afford
Victorian order of nurses (von) agency ✅dual mandate (charitable work/providing
affordable nursing care)
Biomedical model ✅dominated public and political thinking about health during the
time that the canadian medicare system was created in 1957
Lupton's discourse ✅aa patterned system that can be identified in communications
and located in social structures
Income ✅most significant social determinant of health
Upstream health promotion ✅bike helmet legislation...prevention
High school dropout? ✅your education levels have a srs impact on the development of
life threatening illnesses
Nurses involved in community development must know... ✅who the key players are
and the community's history
Community development nurses act as a resource for a community that has come
together to generate solutions.
Community forum ✅public meetings in which community members discuss issues of
concern with their leaders or decision makers. They provide a two way dialogue through
which members can share their experiences and opinions. Ppl who attend meetings are
either directly involved in or affected by the topic being discussed
Swot analysis ✅strengths weaknesses opportunities threats - used to evaluate swots
in a project or in the community
Spin offs ✅unintended effects of a program
, Program planning ✅use assessment trials to analyze waht the community will benefit
from most
Focuses on community weaknesses
Problem defined by professionals, they take responsibility for solving hte probelm,
recruit program participants, community members carry out assigned voluntary
activities, defined timeleines, desired outcome: change in specific behavior
Decision making authority rests with professionals
Community development ✅determine what they need then supplement it
Desired outcome: increased capacity for the community
Community group identifies their own issues, professionals enable the community to
solve own problem, community members are responsible for all aspects of the process,
timelines may be undefined and longer, focus on id strengths ad competencies,
decision making authority shared, constant negotation of power relations
Plain language ✅thinking about your audience and consciously writing for them
Unlearning old habits and strong attachments to particular styles of writing
Reasons for evaluating a community project? ✅what should be retained and/or
changed
Whether sustainability is likely
High risk groups of health literacy ✅65+ geriatrics
Aboriginals
Immigrants (primary language not eng or fr)
Undereducated (cannot read or write)
Learning disabilities
Health populations data that can be compared internationally? ✅infant mortality - rates
per 100 live births
Life expectancy
Methods chns narrow the gap b/w rhetoric and reality of health promotion in their
practice? ✅-upstream (encourage self awareness in each individuals health)
-educate ppl about healthy lifestyles
-socio-ecological (holistic nursing - mental/physical/spiritual health)
-capacity (increase well being of entire community, not just individual)
-understand ones own perception of health may be different
Number one risk factor? ✅poverty
Goals for chn ✅work towards a healthy community - promotion of social justice and
equity - work upstream- midstream, downstream
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