Key Features
- Complete and comprehensive
CONTENTS
1 Introduction to Community Health and Community Health Nursing
- Definitions
- Aims of Community Health Nursing
- Objectives
- How to Achieve the Goal?
- Principles of Community Health Nursing
- Changing Concepts of Community Health
- Concepts of Community Health Nursing
- Qualities of Community Health Nurse
- Philosophy of Community Health Nursing
- Historical Development of Community Health
- and Community Health Nursing in India
- Scope of Community Health Nursing Practice
- Review Questions
2 Health Planning and Policies and Problems
- Introduction
- Five Year Plans in India
- Health Committees
- Central Council of Health and Family
- Welfare
- National Health Policies
- National Health Policy-
- Policy Thrust
- National Population Policy
- Health Problems in India
- Summary
- Review Questions
3 Delivery of Community Health Services
- Introduction
- Planning
- Budgeting in Health Care System
- Health Care Financing
- Material Management
- Organization, Staffi ng and Functions at Village Level, Subcentre, PHC, CHC, Subdivisional/
Taluk, District Hospital, Central, State, District
- Urban Health Infrastructure
- Environmental Sanitation
- Health Education
- Vital Statistics
- Maternal Health Centres,
- Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,
- Medical Termination Amendment Bill,
- Safe Abortion Services at Various Levels of Care,
- Female Foeticide Act,
- Family Welfare Programmes,
- Family Planning Services at Various Levels
- of Care,
- Components of Health Services,
- National Health Programmes
- School Health Services
- Occupational Health
- Defence Services
- Institutional Services
- Systems of Medicine and Health Care
- Social and Spiritual Healing
- Mainstreaming of Ayush Under NRHM
- Referral System
- Review Questions
4 Community Health Nursing Approaches, Concepts and Roles and Responsibilities of Nursing Personnel, 76
- Epidemiological Approach
- Theories and Models for Community Health Nursing
- Community Health Nursing Process
- Problem-Solving Approach
- Evidence-Based Approach
- Primary Health Care
- Family Health Services
- Roles and Responsibilities of Community Health Nursing (CHN) in Family Health Service
- Home Visiting
- Information, Education and Communication
- Health Management Information System
- Nursing Management Information Systemv(NMIS) ii
- Control Programmes
- Nutritional Programmes
- Programmes Related to System Strengthening and Welfare
- Other Health and Sanitation Programmes
- Health Screening
- National Programme for Control and Treatment of Occupational Diseases
- Health Schemes
- Review Questions
5 Activities of Community Health Nurse in Assisting Individuals and Groups to Promote and Maintain Their Health
- Introduction
- Growth and Development
- Weight Measurement
- Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Home/ Community Settings
- Menstrual Cycle
- Breast Self-Examination
- Testicular Self-Examination
- Warning Signs of Five Severe Diseases
- Routine Health Check-Ups
- Immunization and Immunization Schedule
- Diagnosing Illness and the Diagnostic Process
- Treatment
- Counselling
- Health Records Maintained at Public Health
- Settings
- Waste Management
- Women’s Empowerment
- Violence/Abuse Against Women
- Child Abuse
- Elder Abuse
- Female Feticide
- Review Questions
6 National Health and Family Welfare Programmes in India and the Health Schemes in India
- National Health Programmes in India
- Eradication Programmes
- Elimination Programmes
7 Health Agencies
- International Health Agencies
- World Health Organization
- The United Nations Fund for Population Activities
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- World Bank
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
- Danish International Development Agency(DANIDA)
- European Commission
- International Red Cross
- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Colombo Plan
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief
- Everywhere (CARE)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- Ford Foundation
- Voluntary Health Agencies
- Review Questions
- Maintenance of Records and Reports
- Training and Supervision
- Role of Community Health Nurse in National
- Health Programmes
- School Health Services
- Occupational Health
- Organization of Clinics and Camps
- Health Care Waste Management
- Review Questions