Public health nursing : practicing population-based care / edited by Marie Truglio-Londrigan and Sandra B. Lewenson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is public health and public health nursing? -- Public health nursing in the united states: a history -- Assessment: using the public health nursing assessment tool-- Fundamentals of epidemiology and social epidemiology -- Educating public health nurses to do the work -- Evidence-based practice from a public health perspective -- Informatics in public health nursing -- Considerations of culture in the health of the public -- Healthcare policy and politics: the risk and rewards for public health nurses -- Social justice and ethics of public health practice -- Hitting the pavement: intervention of case-finding: outreach, screening, surveillance, and disease and health event investigation -- Running the show: referral and follow-up, case management, and delegated functions -- Working it out: consultation, counseling, and health teaching -- Working together: collaboration, coalition building, and community organizing -- Getting the word out: advocacy, social marketing, and policy development and enforcement -- Protecting, Sustaining, and empowering: a historical perspective on the control of epidemics -- Historical highlights in disaster nursing -- Present-day disasters and disaster management: social determinants of health and community collaboration -- Environment and health -- Epilogue: nursing and primary health care