Chapter 12 Flashcards
A locality-based entity composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting society’s institutions, informal groups, and aggregates.
A community
A Collection of individuals who have in common one or more personal or environmental characteristics.
Aggregate
The community is first the setting for practice for the nurse..
Practicing health promotion and disease prevention interventions with individuals, families, and groups
Second, the community is the target of practice..
For the public health nurse whose practice is focused on the broader community rather than on individuals.
Three common characteristics of community health
Status, structure, process
Measured by traditional morbidity and mortality rates, life expectancy indices, and risk factor profiles.
Biological (physical) part of community health
Measured by consumer satisfaction and mental health indexes.
Emotional component of health status?
How are crime rates and functional levels reflected?
By the social part of community health
Meeting of collective needs by identifying problems and managing interactions within the community itself and between the community and the larger society
Community Health
One of the three core functions of PHN and is the process of critically thinking about the community.
Community assessment
A short and simple community assessment
***Windshield survey
The process of obtaining existing, readily available data (age, gender and racial distribution, vital statistics, socioeconomic characteristics, community institutions, etc.).
***Data gathering
The process of developing data that do not already exist, through interaction with community members, individuals, families or groups ( values and sentiments, norms, goals, problem-solving process, power, leadership, influence structures, etc.).
***Data generation
