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Aggregate
a population group (a group that share one or more personal or environmental characteristics)
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assessment
systematic data collection about a population. This includes monitoring teh population's health status and providing information about the health of teh community
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assurance
the public health role of making sure that essential community-oriented health services are available
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community
poeple and the relationships that emerge among them as they develop and use in commonsome agencies and institutions and share a physical environment
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communitu-based
occurs outside an institution. services are provided to individuals and families in a community
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community-based nursing
the provision of acute care and care for chronic health problems to individuals and families in the community
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community health nursing
nursing practice in the community, with the primary focus on the health care of individuals, families, and groups in a community. ***The goal is to preserve, protect, promote, or maintain health
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community-oriented nursing
nursing that has as its primary focus the health care of either the community or a population of individuals, families, and groups
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community-oriented practice
broader in scope than community-based practice. A form of care in which the nurse provides health care after doing a community diagnosis to determine what conditions need to be altered so that individuals, families, and groups in the community stay healthy
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policy development
providing leadership in developing policies that support the health of the population
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population
a collection of people who share one or more personal or environmental characteristics
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population-fcoused
emphasizes populations who live in a community
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population-focused practice
the core of public health, a practice that emphasizes health protection, health promotion, and disease prevention of a population
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primary health care services
both primary care and public health services that are designed to meet the basic needs of people in communities at an afforfable cost
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public health
community efforts designed to prevent disease and promote health. It can be what members of society do collectively to ensure conditions that support health
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public health core functions
these include assessment, policy development, and assurance (making sure that community services are available)
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public health nursing
a specialty of nursing that synthesizes nursing, social, and public health sciences to provide care to populations
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secondary health care services
services designed to detect and treat disease in the early acute stage
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subpopulations
subsets of the population who share similar characteristics. For example, people older than 65yrs who live in a residential home would be a subpopulation of a larger population of olfrt persons in the community
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tertiary health care services
services designed to limit the progression of disease or disability
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