Week 1: Community Health Nursing & Herbal Medicine Flashcards
WEEK 1: cOMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING & HERBAL
MEDICINE
found
a group of people with common characteristics or interests
living together within a territory or geographical
boundary place where people under usual conditions are
WHO:
• State of COMPLETE WELL-BEING PHYSICAL
MENTAL
DEFINITION OF TERMS
& SOCIAL not merely an absence of disease or infirmity
MODERN DEFINITION:
. OLOF (Optimum Level of Functioning)
COMMUNITY
- POLITICAL - Safety
Oppression
- BEHAVIOR- Culture
Habits
HEALTH
- HEREDITY - Generic Endowment (Defect
Strengths
Risk).
- HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM - Promotive
Preventive
Curative
- ENVIRONMENT- Air
Food
Noise
Pollution
ECOSYSTEM
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC- Employment
Education
Education
Health is affected by combination of many factors.
Environment & circumstances
Income 8& Social Status
Employment & working conditions
Health Services
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Physical Environment
Culture
Genetics
Gender
Social Support Networks
WINSLOw
Personal Behavior & coping skills
PUBLIC HEALTH
ence & Art of Prevents Disease
Promote
health/efficiency
Prolong life
Organized COMMUNITY EFFORT for
sanitation env’t
o organization of Medicine & Nrsg Service
For Early dx. & prev. Tx of dse.
control CD
Devp of social machinery to ensure a STANDARD of
ADEQ. Living for MAINTENANCE of HEALTH
Enable EVERY CITIZEN
Education personal hygiene
• to realize BIRTHRIGHT of health & longevity
WHO
Art of applying science in the context of politics
Public Health is a CORE ELEMENT of GOVERNMENT
attempt to improve citizens welfare
Essential PH Fxns:
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- Regulation to protect public
Human Resource Dev.
Surveillance
Devp of policy in public health
NLPGN
Research
innovative SOLN.
Ensure QUALITY health Service
Health Promotion
Reduce INEQUALITIES
• Ensure BEST HEALTH for the GREATEST nUmber
DEFINITION OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
LILLIAN WALD (coined)
henry
Settlement in New York
AVAL
ats AVAILABLE to ALL people
ruoiG GOV tAgency
care of poor people
Diff. PHN& CHN is only ONE AREA setting of work as
dictated by FUNDING
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF PHIL GOV’T NURSES (NLPGN)
Practice of nrsg. In local national gov’t health dept &
Dublic school
Position/Title/ Designation: (Civil Service Commission):
Public Health Nurse (Nurses in Local/National Health Dept
or public school)
DEFINITION OF CHN BY DR. RUTH FREEMAN
A SERVICE rendered by PROFESSIONAL NURSE
With the I
F
At HOME
HC
For the PROMOTION of HEALTH
PREVENTION of
ILLNESS
CARE of SICK at home & REHABILITATION